England and the papacy in the Early Middle Ages : papal privileges in European perspective, c. 680-1073 / Benjamin Savill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savill, Benjamin, 1988- author.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford historical monographs

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England--Church history--449-1066.

England.

Privileges and immunities, Ecclesiastical--History--To 1500.

Privileges and immunities, Ecclesiastical.

England--Foreign relations--Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Foreign relations--England.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This is a detailed study of the relationship between England and the papacy across its first five centuries, from the times of Bede up to the Norman Conquest. It reassesses that relationship through a detailed study of a hitherto understudied corpus of papal documentary sources. It sets developments in England within a wider comparative European context.

Contents:

Intro

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction

I. State of Research

II. This Book: Scope and Structure

Part I. Understanding The Corpus

2. Getting to Grips with Papal Privileges in the Early Middle Ages

I. The Petition

II. Concession, Composition, and Conveyance

III. Return and Recognition

IV. Conclusions

3. An Annotated Handlist of Papal Privileges in Early Medieval England

A. Beginnings to the Mid-Eighth Century

B. Late Eighth and Ninth Centuries

C. The Tenth Century

D. From 1000 to 1073

E. Summary

Part II. Papal Privileges in England Four Studies

4. Papal Privileges in the 'Age of Bede' (c. 680-c. 730)

I. The Continental Background

II. Exotic Imports? The View from England

III. Episcopal Expansion, the 'Minster Boom', and Twinned Monasteries in England

5. Papal Privileges and the 'Mercian Supremacy' (c. 770-c. 830)

I. Property and Genealogy: Offa, Cynethryth, and Hadrian

II. Consolidation, 798: Coenwulf, Cynethryth, and Leo

III. Confrontation: Wulfred, Cwoenthryth, and Paschal

6. Papal Privileges and the English Benedictine Movement (c. 960-c. 1000)

I. The Pallium Privilege: Dunstan and His Continental Counterparts

II. Privileges for Tenth-Century Monasteries: Winchester and Ramsey in (and out of) Context

III. Papal Excommunication: Ælfric of Hampshire and the Monks of Glastonbury

7. Papal Privileges in England and the Coming of the 'Papal Revolution' (1049-73)

I. Understanding the Early Papal Reform Movement

II. England's Early Reform Privileges: Four Categories of Evidence

III. Making Sense of the Evidence

8. Coda: Remembering, Inventing, and Forgetting.

9. Conclusions

Appendix: A Note on Some Items Excluded from the Handlist

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 1, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Savill, Benjamin England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages

ISBN:

0-19-199458-8

0-19-888710-8

0-19-888709-4