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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1211: The Clergy in Western Europe, 700-1200, III: Local Clergy and Parish Clergy

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:Julia Steuart Barrow, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:Carine van Rhijn, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht
Paper 1211-aLocal Priests, Books, and Things in Northern Iberia, 800-1000
(Language: English)
Wendy Davies, Independent Scholar, Faringdon
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Economics - Rural, Local History
Paper 1211-bCounting Clergy: The Distribution of Priestly Presence around a 10th-Century Catalan Town
(Language: English)
Jonathan Jarrett, Department of History, University of Birmingham
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Local History
Paper 1211-cDid Donations of Churches to Religious Houses Have Consequences for the Parish Clergy?: Parish Priests, Ecclesiastical Advowson, and Lay Lords in Normandy, Late 11th-Early 13th Centuries
(Language: English)
Grégory Combalbert, Centre de Recherches Archéologiques et Historiques Anciennes et Médiévales (CRAHAM), Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Local History
Abstract

This session looks at clergy in localities before and after the emergence of the parish system. Clergy were responsible for pastoral care, and its organisation before the emergence of parishes can be hard to establish. The first two papers in this session look at local clergy in Spain, the first one looking at the books and other material resources of priests 800-1000, and the second at the organisation of pastoral care around Manresa in Catalonia in the 10th century. The third paper, on 11th-13th c Normandy, considers what effects there were for parish clergy when advowson was in ecclesiastical hands.