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Cœnobia Turonenses: St Martin's communities in Tours, their practices and networks from late Antiquity until the 13th century

Subject Area Medieval History
Term from 2019 to 2024
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 411345970
 
Final Report Year 2024

Final Report Abstract

The COENOTUR project was supported by a grant from ANR and DFG. It deals with the relationship between the two religious communities in Tours claiming St Martin’s inheritance (Marmoutier, the community he founded, and St Martin, which developed around his grave) and with their networks. It also includes the study of their relationships with other monasteries established under their protection (St Julien, Cormery, St Cosme and Beaumont-lès- Tours) and with the archbishop and the chapter of the cathedral (St Maurice), from an institutional but also social, religious, topographic and architectural points of view. This research programme deals mainly with the period 8th-13th c., and with the textual, liturgical and architectural production of both communities and their dependencies. From palaeography to 3D reconstruction: History, Archaeology and digital humanities This project used the usual methods and tools in History and Archaeology such as palaeography, diplomatics, building archaeology etc., in association with digital humanities, with the support of the Institut de Recherches et d’Histoire des Textes (CNRS) and the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung and in connection with the programme Formulae – Litterae – Chartae, simultaneously carried out at Hamburg University / Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg: digitalization of many manuscripts of all sorts, the creation of interoperable databases, ink analysis, 3D reconstructions… COENOTUR contributed to a better understanding of many aspects of textual production at Marmoutier and St Martin between the 8th and 13th c. In the Early Middle Ages, only the existence of a scriptorium at St Martin is certain; a synergy between both communities can be observed regarding the writing up of narrative texts in the 11th-13th c. On the archaeological side, the succession of churches within the monastic enclosure of Marmoutier was updated. Comparison between textual and material evidence made clearer the choices of this community to enlarge the precinct and to develop its prestige, within the framework of the Gregorian Reform. Among other things, this project has made it possible to: Edit and translate texts which had never been edited before, such as the customary of Marmoutier, or which have been badly edited (narratives sources); Produce databases regarding manuscripts from Tours between the 8th and the 13th c., on Marmoutier dignitaries or on the use of chirographs; Start a digital library of manuscripts produced in Tours, accessible to researchers and the general public; Publish the research in several ways as papers, monographs and a collective book.

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