@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7zw7bp.18,
 ISBN = {9780812246360},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zw7bp.18},
 abstract = {The sixth century was the period in which medieval Christianity was formed.¹ By the year 600, bishops were well-established political figures, asceticism was institutionalized in the monasteries, and saints worked through their relics. During the century after the conversion of Clovis, late antique Gaul developed the assumptions about church governance, monasticism, and the holy dead that dominated for the next thousand years. Once early medieval Christianity settled on its broad outlines, the tendency was to re-remember the past as having followed the same pattern.Christians of the seventh century shaped their religious practices by contemplating their past, retelling the story},
 bookauthor = {Constance Brittain Bouchard},
 booktitle = {Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200},
 pages = {193--212},
 publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
 title = {Early Frankish Monasticism},
 year = {2015}
}