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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1035 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines in what ways and how far medieval churches were treated as items of property. It ranges over most of Western Europe, from beginnings in the late Roman Empire and post-Roman kingdoms, into the Carolingian empire and its neighbours and successor states; and through the Gregorian reform, up to the late twelfth century when property in churches was patchily superseded by the canon-law right of patronage. The approach is as much social and religious as legal and administrative, and explores ideas and assumptions as well as practical exploitation and property dealings. - ;Although

Contents:

Contents; Map; Prologue; PART I. BEGINNINGS; 1. The Roman Empire and post-Roman kingdoms; i. Churches acquire their own property; ii. Roman founders' claims; iii. The kingdoms of the sixth and seventh centuries; 2. A new stage: Bavaria, Alemania, and Lombard Italy, mid-eighth to mid-ninth century; i. Bavaria and Alemania; ii. Lombard Italy; 3. The converging of private and parish churches; i. Gaul: private churches get parochial rights; ii. Gaul: parish churches become objects of property; iii. Other regions; iv. Italy; 4. The question of origins

5. Early monasteries: their founders and abbotsi. The position of external founders; ii. Family monasteries or abbots' monasteries?; iii. The abbot's heir; 6. Some non-Frankish patterns of family interest in monasteries; i. Ireland; ii. Galicia; iii. England; iv. Bavaria; v. Italy; 7. Transition to outside lordship of monasteries; i. Were early founder families losing hold or letting go?; ii. The conditions for lasting outside lordship; 8. The emergence of bishops' lordship over monasteries; i. Bishops' claims to authority, sixth to eighth century

ii. The bases of bishops' lordship, seventh and eighth centuries9. The emergence of lay rulers' lordship over monasteries; i. The consequences of secularization in Francia; ii. The explicit bases of royal lordship in Francia; iii. Royal defence in Francia; iv. Rulers in Lombard Italy and pre-Viking England; PART II. LORDSHIP OVER HIGHER CHURCHES, NINTH TO ELEVENTH CENTURY; 10. Kings and princes; i. Higher churches as benefices; ii. Carolingian immunity-defence; iii. Proprietary dealings with higher churches; iv. Services owed by higher churches

v. Germany after the Carolingians, and some contemporary statesvi. Were bishoprics ever 'proprietary'?; 11. Nobles other than founders' heirs; i. Lay abbots; ii. Advocates; 12. Noble founders and their heirs; i. Ninth-century Carolingian realms north of the Alps; ii. Ottonian and Salian Germany; iii. Late Carolingian and Capetian France and Burgundy-Provence; iv. Italy, tenth and eleventh centuries; v. England, tenth and eleventh centuries; 13. Great churches as lords of monasteries; i. The lordship of monasteries over monasteries; ii. The lordship of bishoprics over monasteries

PART III. LOWER CHURCHES AS PROPERTY, NINTH TO TWELFTH CENTURY14. Lesser churches' resources in lands and other possessions; i. Endowments; ii. Lords' interest in their churches' possessions; 15. Lesser churches' resources in tithes and offerings; i. Allocation of tithes and offerings between churches; ii. Offerings: seigneurial power or choice from below?; iii. Lords' enjoyment of tithes and offerings: its beginnings, and development mainly in France; iv. Lords' enjoyment of tithes and offerings in other countries; v. Was there a standard 'lord's share'?

16. Proprietors' arrangements with their priests

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (934-980) and index.

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ISBN:

1-281-14713-3

0-19-151870-0

9786611147136

OCLC:

252685111