The proprietary church in the medieval West / Susan Wood.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Wood, Susan, 1925-2022.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Church property.
• Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
• Church history.
• Church history--Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

xii, 1020 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

• Although there have been many regional studies of the proprietary church or particular aspects of it, this is the first extensive study of it covering most of western Europe, from the end of the Roman Empire in the West to about 1200. The book aims at a broad survey in varying degrees of intensity and with a shifting geographical focus; and it asks questions that are as much social and religious as legal or administrative.
• The book vindicates, for village and estate churches, Ulrich Stutz's basic concept of a church with its possessions, revenues, and priestly office as an object of what we can reasonably call property. But it largely rejects his and his followers' application of this to great churches, and sees the position of intermediate churches (such as small or middling, monasteries) as various, changeable, and ambivalent. Above all it turns away from Stutz's view of the property relationship as a distinct institution or system of 'Germanic church law', presenting it rather as a fluid set of assumptions and practices taking shape as customary law. Susan Wood considers also the changing background of ideas and the bearing on it of important polemical writings (with some questioning of their established interpretations). Finally the book discusses how property in churches was imperfectly superseded by the new canon-law patronage, in the increasingly bureaucratic post-Gregorian Church.

Contents:

• Part I Beginnings
• 1 The Roman Empire and post-Roman kingdoms 9
• i Churches acquire their own property 9
• ii Roman founders' claims 11
• iii The kingdoms of the sixth and seventh centuries 16
• 2 A new stage: Bavaria, Alemania, and Lombard Italy, mid-eighth to mid-ninth century 33
• i Bavaria and Alemania 33
• ii Lombard Italy 48
• 3 The converging of private and parish churches 66
• i Gaul: private churches get parochial rights 67
• ii Gaul: parish churches become objects of property 74
• iii Other regions 79
• iv Italy 86
• 4 The question of origins 92
• 5 Early monasteries: their founders and abbots 109
• i The position of external founders 111
• ii Family monasteries or abbots' monasteries? 118
• iii The abbot's heir 127
• 6 Some non-Frankish patterns of family interest in monasteries 140
• i Ireland 140
• ii Galicia 147
• iii England 152
• iv Bavaria 161
• v Italy 166
• 7 Transition to outside lordship of monasteries 176
• i Were early founder families losing hold or letting go? 176
• ii The conditions for lasting outside lordship 181
• 8 The emergence of bishops' lordship over monasteries 191
• i Bishops' claims to authority, sixth to eighth century 191
• ii The bases of bishops' lordship, seventh and eighth centuries 199
• 9 The emergence of lay rulers' lordship over monasteries 211
• i The consequences of secularization in Francia 211
• ii The explicit bases of royal lordship in Francia 221
• iii Royal defence in Francia 230
• iv Rulers in Lombard Italy and pre-Viking England 235
• Part II Lordship Over Higher Churches, Ninth to Eleventh Century
• 10 Kings and princes 247
• i Higher churches as benefices 247
• ii Carolingian immunity-defence 251
• iii Proprietary dealings with higher churches 260
• iv Services owed by higher churches 269
• v Germany after the Carolingians, and some contemporary states 280
• vi Were bishoprics ever 'proprietary'? 292
• 11 Nobles other than founders' heirs 312
• i Lay abbots 312
• ii Advocates 328
• 12 Noble founders and their heirs 339
• i Ninth-century Carolingian realms north of the Alps 339
• ii Ottonian and Salian Germany 355
• iii Late Carolingian and Capetian France and Burgundy-Provence 372
• iv Italy, tenth and eleventh centuries 393
• v England, tenth and eleventh centuries 408
• 13 Great churches as lords of monasteries 413
• i The lordship of monasteries over monasteries 413
• ii The lordship of bishoprics over monasteries 418
• Part III Lower Churches as Property, Ninth to Twelfth Century
• 14 Lesser churches' resources in lands and other possessions 437
• i Endowments 437
• ii Lords' interest in their churches' possessions 444
• 15 Lesser churches' resources in tithes and offerings 459
• i Allocation of tithes and offerings between churches 459
• ii Offerings: seigneurial power or choice from below? 478
• iii Lords' enjoyment of tithes and offerings: its beginnings, and development mainly in France 486
• iv Lords' enjoyment of tithes and offerings in other countries 501
• v Was there a standard 'lord's share'? 512
• 16 Proprietors' arrangements with their priests 519
• i The priests' appointment and status 519
• ii The priest as tenant of church, land, and revenue: Germany, Burgundy, France 530
• iii The priest as tenant: Spain, Italy, England 541
• iv The tenant priest's rent or service 555
• v The priest with partial tenure, allowance, or wage 560
• vi The priest's living in monks' churches 575
• 17 Lay proprietors 584
• i Rulers, nobles, and knights 584
• ii Families and partnerships with common property 601
• iii Dealings in fractions 627
• iv Lay lords' livelihoods and family arrangements 637
• v Townsmen and merchants, mainly in England 645
• vi 'Community' churches? 651
• 18 Priests as proprietors 659
• 19 Higher churches as proprietors 681
• i Monasteries, collegiate churches, chapters 681
• ii Bishops and bishoprics 689
• 20 Some proprietary elements in a bishop's authority 696
• i Altaria 697
• ii The bishop's customs 711
• Part IV Ideas, Opinion, Change
• 21 The juridical condition of churches 729
• i The church as person and as thing 729
• ii Grants of churches to individuals: loans and gifts 739
• iii Donations, sales, exchanges, mortgages 754
• iv Litigation 776
• 22 Legislation and reforming opinion 789
• i The eighth and ninth centuries 789
• ii Hincmar of Rheims's defence of lay lordship 804
• iii The tenth century, to Abbo of Fleury 812
• iv Old themes in the eleventh century 824
• 23 Monastic reform: lordship and liberty 830
• i Reform and lordship 830
• ii Monastic liberty 839
• 24 Gregorian reform and the proprietary church 851
• i The Investiture Dispute and its polemic 851
• ii Donations of churches and the impact of Gregorian ideas 864
• 25 Towards a bureaucratic Church 883
• i The emergence of the canon law of patronage 883
• ii Change on the ground in the twelfth century 904
• 26 The longer term 922.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [934]-980) and index.

ISBN:

0198206976

OCLC:

62796035

Publisher Number:

9780198206972

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