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Abstract
Interreligious endowments in the strict sense were beyond the imagination of medieval founders and churchmen alike. Among similar phenomena, however, Latin Christendom did experience changes of monastic observances, which were often shaped as refoundations. In the late eleventh century, when monastic reform movements became increasingly important, a number of canonries (communities of secular clerics) were reorganized as monasteries. Hasungen in Hesse is an interesting case, founded and refounded by the same bishop for spiritual, political and personal reasons. This paper looks at the reaction of the former canons. By analysing charters and narrative evidence, it asks about their agency in adapting to the change of observance. Although monastic "reform" had the potential to marginalize the former canons, they not only accepted the refoundation: during the eventful first decades of the new monastery, they managed to keep alive the memory of, and connections to, the social environment which their pre-monastic community had been rooted in.

Abstract
Traditionally, scholarship has seen the history of the diaconiae, charitable foundations in the city of Rome, in line with the alleged general trends in Roman history in the early Middle Ages, i.e. the gradual "Romanization" of formerly "Greek" elements of Byzantine origin, and the "papalization" of secular (state and private) initiatives, both taking place primarily in the mid-8th century. Although the diaconiae had come under papal control as late as the 9th and eventually the 10th centuries, this paper argues that this development took place not as an abandonment of private forms of endowments prominent in Byzantine Rome, but namely through the appropriation of "post-Byzantine" aristocratic endowment practice by the popes around the turn of the 9th century.

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- I. Einleitung -- II. Griechischsprachige Migranten im byzantinischen Rom, etwa 650– 680 -- III. Nachkommen griechischer Einwanderer im post-byzantinischen Rom, etwa 730–760 -- IV. Jenseits von Byzanz. Nachkommen griechischer Migranten und Neueinwanderer, etwa 800–830 -- V. Schluss -- VI. Anhang