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This book explores one of the most significant medieval saints' cults, that of St. Maurus, the first known disciple of Saint Benedict. Despite the centrality of this story to the myth of medieval Benedictine culture, no major scholarly work has been devoted to Maurus since the late nineteenth century. Drawing on memory studies, this book investigates the origins and history of the cult, from the ninth-century Life of St. Maurus by Odo, abbot of Glanfueil, to its appropriation and re-shaping by three powerful abbeys through to the thirteenth century-Fossés, Cluny, and Montecassino. It traces how these institutions deployed caches of mostly forged documents (many translated here for the first time) to adapt the cult to their aspirations and, moreover, considers how the cult adapted itself further, to face the challenges of the modern world.
"Wickstrom's engaging and elegantly written book. . In each chapter, Wickstrom carefully places the texts he examines in as broad a political, historical, theological, and social context as possible. . Wickstrom has given us both a microhistory focused on a single house and at the same time a celebration of place, a feast of scholarship about how a monastery creates and recreates, and recreates yet again, its identity . and its possessions over the course of a thousand years." (M. A. Claussen, Speculum, Vol. 100 (4), October, 2025)
"This tension seems an unavoidable consequence of Wickstrom's holistic approach - it is impossible to do everything, after all. The book's merits do not lie in its theoretical approaches, but rather in its repositioning of Glanfeuil and Maurus in the greater scheme of things. That is also the stated goal of the book, and the author does an admirable job reaching it. Fiction, Memory and Identity stands as a testament to Wickstrom's aptitude for close reading - be it a charter . ." (Rutger Kramer, Church History, Vol. 93 (1), March, 2024)
"Fiction, Memory, and Identity in the Cult of St. Maurus, 830-1270 . may be confidently recommended as an essential addition to any monastic library. . The indexing, bibliography and footnotes are comprehensive, and provide everything for which the potential researcher might wish. Fiction, Memory, and Identity in the Cult of St. Maurus, 830-1270 is an important and substantial contribution to medieval monastic studies, and is to be recommended accordingly." (Robert Nixon, American Benedictine Review, Vol. 73 (3), September, 2022)
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