Review article to Kramer, Rutger, Emilie Kurdziel, and Graeme Ward (eds). Monastic Communities and Canonical Clergy in the Carolingian World (780-840): Categorizing the Church. Medieval Monastic Studies. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 454. €120 (hardback). ISBN: 978-2-503-57935-1 (hardback)

The series of articles and case studies published in this volume, on the one hand, on the Carolingian Church Reform and on the distinction between monks and monastic communities, and, on the other hand, on the so-called clerici canonici and their communities, were presented, discussed, and developed during two workshops. The first was held in Vienna in May 2017, sponsored by the SFB “Visions of Community,” and the second in Poitiers in October 2018, sponsored by the Centre d’études supèrieures de civilisation médiévale and by the program “Aquitania Monastica.”