Men in the Middle: Local Priests in Early Medieval Europe

266 Pages·2016·1.929 MB·English

by  Steffen Patzold, Carine van Rhijn (eds.)

MenintheMiddle
Ergänzungsbände zum
Reallexikon der
Germanischen Altertumskunde
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Heinrich Beck · Sebastian Brather · Dieter Geuenich ·
Wilhelm Heizmann · Steffen Patzold · Heiko Steuer
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Men in the Middle
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Local Priests in Early Medieval Europe
Edited by
Steffen Patzold and Carine van Rhijn
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Preface
ThelocalpriestsofearlymedievalEuropehavethusfarneverhadasignificantscholarly
lobby.Foralongtime,theywereregardedasrathersadcharacterswhoweredepen-
dentontheirlordsanddidnothaveanynoticeableagencyoftheirown.Thisimageof
localchurchesandtheirpriestshasrecentlystartedtochangeconsiderably,however.
Manyofthosemediaevalistsresponsibleforthisshifthavecontributedtothisbook.
This volume is not the result of a single conference, but rather reflects a series
of workshops where an international group of scholars discussed “local identities”
intheearlyMiddleAges.TheywereconvenedandledbyBernhardZeller,whooper-
ated under the aegis of Walter Pohl’s SCIRE project. The meetings were funded by
the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7/2007–2013)/ERC grant agreement No. 269591 (Social Cohesion,
IdentityandReligioninEurope,400–1200).Wewouldliketoexpressourgratitude
to Walter Pohl for generously making this series of inspiring meetings possible
within the framework of his ERC Grant, and to Bernhard Zeller for organising and
hosting them at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Moreover, work on
this book has profited immensely from the DFG-supported Graduiertenkolleg 1662
“Religiöses Wissen im vormodernen Europa [800-1800],” which invited Carine van
RhijntospendasemesterinTübingenasaguestscholar.
Inthelaterstageofputtingtogetherthebook,whenthedevilwasincreasingly
inthedetails,wegotinvaluablehelpfromPetraLang,whotirelesslycorrectedfootnotes
submittedinawidevarietyofshapes,formsandlanguages–forthisshedeservesour
deepgratitude.MoregratitudegoestoUweGruppandAndreasÖffner,whocreatedthe
index atrecord speed withrecord accuratesse, and toDorothea KiesandAnkeKrüger
fordiligentproofreading.Lastbutnotleast,wethankChristophSchirmerofDeGruyter,
whohastakenexcellentcareofthebookonitswaytopublication.
TheEditors
Tübingen/Utrecht,March2016

Table of contents
Abbreviations  IX
CarinevanRhijnandSteffenPatzold
1 Introduction  1
MiriamCzock
2 Practicesofpropertyandthesalvationofone’ssoul:Priestsasmeninthe
middleintheWissembourgmaterial  11
BernhardZeller
3 LocalpriestsinearlymedievalAlamannia:Thecharterevidence  32
ThomasKohl
4 Presbyterinparochiasua:Localpriestsandtheirchurchesinearlymedieval
Bavaria  50
CharlesMériaux
5 Idealandreality:CarolingianpriestsinnorthernFrancia  78
MarcoStoffella
6 LocalpriestsinearlymedievalruralTuscany  98
WendyDavies
7 LocalpriestsinnorthernIberia  125
FrancescaTinti
8 LookingforlocalpriestsinAnglo-SaxonEngland  145
YitzhakHen
9 PriestsandbooksintheMerovingianperiod  162
CarinevanRhijn
10 ManuscriptsforlocalpriestsandtheCarolingianreforms  177
SteffenPatzold
11 Paternoster:PriestsandthereligiousinstructionofthelaityintheCarolingian
populuschristianus  199
VIII  Tableofcontents
RobMeens
12 Earlymedievalpriests:Somefurtherthoughts  222
Bibliography  229
Index  241