!!!Melker Reform

Melk Reform, revival of the Benedictine orders in the area of Southern 
Germany and Austria as a consequence of the Council of Constance, with 
Melk as its centre, where - at the suggestion of Duke Albrecht V 
and by the good offices of Pope Martin V - some Austrian and 
Bavarian Benedictine monks from the Reformed Monastery of Subiaco 
("Consuetudines Sublacenes"), headed by the new abbot Nikolaus 
Seyringer (1418-1425), were summoned from Matzen. The Melk Reform 
attached great importance to the strict observance of the rules of the 
order and monastic discipline as well as liturgical revival 
("Consuetudines Mellicenses", based on Subiaco) and literary work. 
Because of this and its connections with many other monasteries 
(especially due to numerous guests in Melk and reciprocal visits) and 
to the University of Vienna (Nikolaus von Dinkelsbuehl) it introduced 
early humanism to the monasteries. The Melk Reform not only affected 
the whole area of Austria and South Germany but also took effect 
beyond the order.

!Literature
M. Niederkorn-Bruck, Die Melker Reform im Spiegel der 
Visitationen, 1994.


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