Men in the Middle
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This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. As clerics living among the laity, priests played a double role within their communities: that of local representatives of the Church and religious experts, and that of owners of land and other goods. By virtue of their membership of both the ecclesiastical and the secular world, they can be considered as ‘men in the middle’: people who brought politico-religious ideas and ideals to secular communities, and who linked the local to the supra-local via networks of landownerhsip.
This book addresses both roles that local priests played by approaching them via their manuscripts, and via the charters that record transactions in which they were involved. Manuscripts once owned by local priests bear witness to their education and expertise, but also indicate how, for instance, ideals of the Carolingian reforms reached the lowest levels of early medieval society. The case-studies of collections of charters, on the other hand, show priests as active members of networks of the locally powerful in a variety of European regions. Notwithstanding many local variations, the contributions to this volume show that local priests as ‘men in the middle’ are a phenomenon shared by the early medieval world as a whole.
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Steffen Patzold, University of Tübingen, Germany; Carine van Rhijn, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Table of contents
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1. Introduction
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2. Practices of property and the salvation of one’s soul: Priests as men in the middle in the Wissembourg material
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3. Local priests in early medieval Alamannia: The Charter Evidence
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4. Presbyter in parochia sua: Local priests and their churches in early medieval Bavaria
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5. Ideal and reality: Carolingian priests in northern Francia
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6. Local priests in early medieval rural Tuscany
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7. Local priests in northern Iberia
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8. Looking for local priests in Anglo-Saxon England
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9. Priests and books in the Merovingian period
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10. Manuscripts for local priests and the Carolingian reforms
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11. Pater noster: Priests and the religious instruction of the laity in the Carolingian populus christianus
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12. Early medieval priests: Some further thoughts
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Bibliography
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Index
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