1. Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. Practices of property and the salvation of one’s soul: Priests as men in the middle in the Wissembourg material 11
7. 3. Local priests in early medieval Alamannia: The Charter Evidence 32
8. 4. Presbyter in parochia sua: Local priests and their churches in early medieval Bavaria 50
9. 5. Ideal and reality: Carolingian priests in northern Francia 78
10. 6. Local priests in early medieval rural Tuscany 98
11. 7. Local priests in northern Iberia 125
12. 8. Looking for local priests in Anglo-Saxon England 145
13. 9. Priests and books in the Merovingian period 162
14. 10. Manuscripts for local priests and the Carolingian reforms 177
15. 11. Pater noster: Priests and the religious instruction of the laity in the Carolingian populus christianus 199
16. 12. Early medieval priests: Some further thoughts 222
17. Bibliography 229
18. Index 241