Los monasterios nacidos a través de pactos en los condados catalanes del siglo IX. Reflexiones en torno a la pervivencia de un modelo fundacional visigodo en tiempos de la reforma carolingia

During the 9^th century, there was an important increase of monasteries in the Catalan counties. In few years, from 800 to 875, more than fifty new abbeys were founded; lots of them encouraged by the Carolingian authorities. Nevertheless, at the same time, some cloisters were established by founding pacts between their first monks and their abbot, without the intervention of any external power. In this article, I will study the survival of this pactual tradition, which was deeply connected to the Visigoth monasticism, during the Carolingian reform. The efforts made by their sovereigns in order to impose the Benedict’s Rule were not enough to eradicate the previous monastic tradition, which remained in some of those early monasteries until the first years of the 10^th century.