Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power: Western Europe in the Central Middle Ages

222 Pages·1999·36.86 MB·English

by  A. J. A. Bijsterveld, Henk B. Teunis, Andrew Wareham

IN TE R N A TIO N A L
ED IEVA L
ESEARCH, 6
egotiating Secular &
Ecclesiastical Power
BREPOLS Edited by H enk Teunis, Andrew Wareham, A rnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld
International Medieval Research
Selected Proceedings of the
International Medieval Congress
University of Leeds
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Traditional historiography generally stresses the opposition and contradiction
between secular and ecclesiastical power. By contrast, this volume focuses upon
the interdependence o f secular and ecclesiastical power and on the ways both
secular rulers, kings, counts and other lords, and ecclesiastical authorities and
institutions continuously interacted, trying to affirm the relationships between
them . This selection o f a historiographical in troduction plus nine case-studies
from England, northern France and the Low C ountries enables a subtle
com parison o f secular and ecclesiastical links and social interactions in a series
o f regional and local contexts during the C entral M iddle Ages. T he volume
dem onstrates that this process o f negotiation led to an affirmation o f shared
values and con tribu ted to the creation o f com m on social values in medieval
Europe.
Ludo Milis (Universiteit G ent), “This book, com posed around three major
themes (‘Texts as Tools o f Power’, ‘Land and K insh ip , and ‘Conflict and
A ffirm ation), exemplifies how medievalists can reshape their discipline into a
m ore responsive one. Its scope is no t to offer a wide range o f definitive
explanations, bu t it shows how medievalists should try (and indeed do try) to
return to a close reading o f their docum ents. For far too long, institutional
history, legal history, and histoire événementielle have tried to m onopolize power
relationships and to encapsulate them in rather narrow explanatory schemes.
This volume offers a broader and more encom passing approach.”
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In t e r n a t io n a l M e d ie v a l R e s e a r c h :
Selected Proceedings
of the International Medieval Congress
University of Leeds
V o l u m e 6
Editorial Board
Axel E.W. Müller, Alan V. Murray, Ian N. Wood
with the assistance of the IMC Programming Committee
Editorial Assistants
Amanda Banton
Elizabeth Wall
Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power:
Western Europe in the Central Middle Ages
N e g o t ia t in g Se c u l a r a n d
E c c l e s ia s t ic a l P o w e r
Western Europe in the Central Middle Ages
Edited by
Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld,
Henk Teunis,
and Andrew Wareham
International Medieval Research
6
BREPOLS
Tumhout, Belgium
1999
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Contents
List of Illustrations and Maps...............................................................vii
Preface.................................................................................................... ix
Ludo J.R. Milis
Introduction............................................................................................ xi
Amoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Henk Teunis, &
Andrew Wareham
Notes on Contributors........................................................................... xv
List of Abbreviations............................................................................xix
Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power in the Central
Middle Ages: A Historiographical Introduction.................................... 1
Henk Teunis
Part One . Texts as Tools of Power
The Political Use of Piety in Episcopal and Comital Charters of
the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries...................................................... 19
Benoît-Michel Tock
The Crisis of Episcopal Authority in Guibert of Nogent’s
Monodiae...............................................................................................37
Trudy Lemmers
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Relies as Tools of Power: The Eleventh-Century Inventio of St
Bertin’s Relies and the Assertion of Abbot Bovo’s Authority..........51
Karine Ugé
Monastic Freedom vs. Episcopal and Aristocratic Power in the
Twelfth Century: Context and Analysis of the De libertate
Beccensis............................................................................................. 73
Julie Potter
Part Two . Land and Kinship
Bishops as Contenders for Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England:
The Bishopric of East Anglia and the Regional Aristocracy............. 89
Christine Senecal
Two Models of Marriage: Kinship and the Social Order in
England and Normandy.......................................................................107
Andrew Wareham
Forging Unity between Monks and Laity in Anglo-Norman
England: The Fraternity of Ramsey Abbey.......................................133
Hirokazu Tsurushima
Part Three . Conflict and Affirmation
Parchment and Power in Abbey and Cathedral: Chartres,
Sherborne and Vezelay, c. 1000-1175.............................................. 149
John O. Ward
Conflict and Compromise: The Premonstratensians of Nino ve
(Flanders) and the Laity in the Twelfth Century...............................167
Amoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld
Index of Persons...................................................................................185
Index of Places..................................................................................... 191
Thematic Index.................................................................................... 195