The volume draws on extensive source materials to describe all aspects of monastic live in the Benedictine Monastery St. Peter im Schwarzwald from its founding in 1093 by Berthold II von Zähringen until the dissolution of the diocese in 1806. The monastery was the Zähringers’ "family chapel." Its first period of prosperity ended when the family died out. After years of impoverishment, the monastery enjoyed a second blossoming in the 1700s.