The holy bureaucrat : Eudes Rigaud and religious reform in thirteenth-century Normandy / Adam J. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Adam Jeffrey, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Odo Rigaldus, Archbishop of Rouen, -1275.

Odo Rigaldus.

Franciscans--France--Normandy--Biography.

Franciscans.

Bishops--France--Normandy--Biography.

Bishops.

Normandy (France)--Church history.

Normandy (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, [New York] ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a book that offers a fresh perspective on the complex relationship between thirteenth-century institutional power and evangelical devotion, Adam J. Davis explores the fascinating career of Eudes Rigaud, the Franciscan theologian at the University of Paris and archbishop of Rouen. Eudes's Register, a daybook that he kept for twenty-one years, paints a vivid picture of ecclesiastical life in thirteenth-century Normandy. It records the archbishop's visits to monasteries, convents, hospitals, and country parishes, where he sought to correct a wide range of problems, from clerics who were unchaste, who gambled, and who got drunk, to monasteries that were financially mismanaged and priests who did not know how to conjugate simple Latin verbs.Davis describes the collision between the world as it was and as Eudes Rigaud wished it to be, as well as the mechanisms that the archbishop used in trying to transform the world he found. The Holy Bureaucrat also reconstructs the multifaceted man behind the Register, reuniting Eudes Rigaud the intellectual, Franciscan preacher, church reformer, judge, financial manager, and trusted councillor to King Louis IX. The book traces the growth of a complex bureaucracy in Normandy that insisted on discipline and accountability and relied on new kinds of written administrative records. The result is an absorbing study of the interplay between religious values and practices, institutions and individuals during the age of Saint Louis.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Editorial Note

Introduction

1. The Formation of a Reformer at the Franciscan Studium in Paris

2. Itinerant Archbishop, Itinerant Familia

3. A Metropolitan's Contested Jurisdiction

4. Fixing Broken Windows: Episcopal Visitation and the Mechanisms for Monastic Reform

5. Shepherding the Shepherds: The Challenges of Supervising Normandy's Secular Clergy

6. An Ecclesiastical Administrator of Justice

7. A Franciscan Money Manager: The Archbishop's Two Bodies?

8. A Friar, a King, and a Kingdom

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780801470028

0801470021

OCLC:

868220526