A fundamentally new interpretation of religious change in the eleventh century, examining how the pressure of conflicting religious ideals led to the explosive development of new religious orders and was central to broader ecclesiastical reform.
Phyllis G. Jestice, Ph.D. (1989) in History and Humanities, Stanford University, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She has published several articles on monastic thought in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
