La organización de los monasterios hispanos en la Alta Edad Media (ss. IX-X): los espacios de la ‘aldea espiritual’

Although it can seem paradoxical, our knowledge on the Hispanic monastic phenomenon in the Late Antiquity surpass to which we have for the High Middle Ages. In the case of the written sources, the superiority is unquestionable, because for centuries VIII-X we lack testimonies like offered by San Fructuoso or San Isidoro in century VII, authors of two visions very different from the monastic life that were reflected in two monastics regulae. Respect to the space in which the monastic life was developed in Hispania, Archaeology has contributed very little to already known by the sources; and these, which seems to indicate is that during centuries IX-X in the Hispanic monastic space still was anarchic, difficult to restrict in typologies. So that personages like San Genadio, bishop of Asturica Augusta or San Rosendo, bishop of Dumio, two abbot-bishops, will be who now inform into the guidelines of habitability (infrastructure and organization) of the Hispanic High Middle Ages monastic space to us.