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The Ottonians and Benedictines were expanding across Europe around the same time. However, other than in Rome they didn't have much overlap. I've heard references in some history and medieval architecture classes that there was some sort of antagonism between the two. Is this something that is findable in sources? Was there any contact or friction between the two groups of any kind? Some checking in the books I have on the period never covered this and a quick Google search did not come up with anything. Were there relations between the two, and if so, what were they? If there are sources on them I'd be curious to see them.

What I would like to see are sources that note the contact between the two and what sort of diplomacy or contact is noted between a religious order the size and influence of the benedictines and the Ottonians.

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Two "empires" that share time and space will in general always be antagonistic, and when one empire as in this case is supposedly religious and the other an empire of kings there are plenty of excuses. I'm sure there are a lot of examples of conflicts between Ottonian kings and Benedictine holy men, but this would not be different from any other conflict between a king and church. As such I don't really understand what kind of answer you want or expect that could be meaningful. – Lennart Regebro Nov 29 '11 at 10:03
I was looking for sources that note the contact between the two, I added more to note this so hopefully that would answer your question. – MichaelF Nov 29 '11 at 13:56
I decided to look for an answer. Look at my first result: google.com/… lol – astabada Jan 22 at 20:43

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