Historia als Kultur – Einführung

Jean Mabillon and the Debate on the Regular Origins of Secular Canonesses in Seventeenth-Century France

“…Studies from the last three decades have argued that like cultural memory (memoria), historical erudition (historia) was imbued with 'political, religious, and medial claims and instructions'. 13 This has been shown to great effect for the historiographical output by members of the Maurist Congregation in general. 14 Mabillon's work in particular has also been reinterpreted in light of his movement's ideological and institutional pursuits, as well as in the context of the controversies in which he personally became involved.…”