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Hilken, Charles. Memory and Community in Medieval Southern
Italy. The History, Chapter Bool, and Necrology of Santa Maria del
Gualdo Mazzocca. Monumenta Liturgica Benventana, IV. Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2008. Pp. 320. $76.00.
ISBN 978-0-88844-157-7.
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Reviewed by Annick Peters-Custot. University of Saint-Etienne, France.
The academic community is always excited to discover, with the
edition of a monastic necrology, a new source for the social,
political and economic history of the Middle Ages.
Charles Hilken furnishes here not only an edition, but also a great and rich
monograph of a monastic house, Santa Maria del Gualdo Mazzocca, an
important abbey of medieval Southern Italy, which had been little
studied and remained in the shadow of its greater neighbours, Santa
Sofia of Benevento, Montevergine or Pulsano. The abbey's cartulary
had been edited and studied by Jean-Marie Martin, but the Chapter
Book, one of richest documents of medieval Southern Italy,
preserved in Vat. lat. 5949, had remained almost silent. The
present work, originally a doctoral dissertation defended in April
1994, allows this abbey, of which very little remains except the
documentary sources, to emerge from sleep. The author's study is
based upon the finest knowledge of the sources, of codicological
methods as well as of the historiography, and upon an impressive
bibliography. And, in spite of (or maybe thanks to) this erudite
approach, this book really makes for pleasant reading.
The author provides at the same time the essential elements of a
story of expansion and decline, and an original study of the
abbey's necrology. Santa Maria del Gualdo Mazzocca actually
integrates into the common religious story of medieval South Italy-
-and the book deserves its general and programmatic title. It was
founded in the middle of the 12th century by a hermit, John of
Tufara--whose cult was approved in 2005--and a small number of
disciples, like other contemporary foundations: Montevergine by
William of Vercelli, or Pulsano by John of Matera. It reveals the
preponderance of heremitic ideals in medieval and modern South
Italy, where foundations are often based upon heremitic renewal,
perhaps because monastic reformers found here a good environment
for heremitical solitude--and, the humble author of this lines
would add, perhaps because of the influence of a byzantine
tradition and heritage. In those original times, whose ideals are
reflected in the necrology by the presentation of the founding
brothers' names--cf infra--being a monk was less a style of
life in the rigidity of a rule than a vocation to lead a life
separated from the secular world. On the other side, the
illuminations and the script of the abbey's most precious remains,
the cartulary and the Chapter Book, attest the cultural influences
of Santa Sofia of Benevento. And the entire story of Santa Maria
del Gualdo Mazzocca, from its successful expansion to the decline,
echoes the global religious story of South Italy and, more
generally, of the West in the Middle Ages. But the very attentive
lecture of the necrology presented by the author gives a new vision
for the monastic conception of a congregation, based upon
concentric circles, which invade the local and secular environment.