The doge and his monks. The monastery of Saints Hilary and Benedict between Venice and the Terraferma (9th-10th centuries)
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/5321Keywords:
Monasticism, doges, identity, institutionsAbstract
The Benedictine monastery of Sts Hilary and Benedict, established in the early ninth century on the extreme Western end of the Lagoon, soon became an offshoot of Venice itself. The Monastery represented a relevant patrimonial and political presence qualifying as the monastery of the doges. From the very start the doges were its main benefactors and defenders. As such they remained over time, along all of the political changes. The localisation of this coenoby suggests that, throughout the ninth and tenth centuries, the Venetian élites were looking at the Terraferma, and its specific forms of social and political organisation, as a model to emulate, before the maritime vocation of Venice became a clear-cut priority.
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