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The rhetoric of 'flexibility' and its potential to empower workers forms a key part of employment policy at the EU level

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Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe virility The rhetoric of 'flexibility' andThe period 550 to 750 was one in which monastic culture became more firmly entrenched in Western Europe. The role of monasteries and their relationship to the social world around them was transformed during this period as monastic institutions became more integrated in social and political power networks. This collected volume of essays focuses on one of the central figures in this process, the Irish ascetic exile and monastic founder, Columbanus (c.