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of Apulia, tried to enforce his abbey's old rights over Santa Maria, but in a dramatic series of events in 1071–73 was forced to back down. In 1081 he formally admitted his sin and acknowledged Santa Maria's independence. The abbot he tried to remove, Ferrus, outlived him and the abbot whose election
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60:(856–83). Leo reports that in his day many charters from the time of Monecaus were still in the archives of Monte Cassino. For some reason, Leo later erased this information from his chronicle. None of the charters he mentions survive. In 883, a band of
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Adriatic Early Romanesque style, which integrated the Western European tradition with those of Byzantium and the
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he engineered, Ungrellus, is never heard of again. Nevertheless, papal privileges continued to list the monastery of
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