IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1616: Cartularies and Reform: Monastic Responses to Episcopal Threats in High Medieval Iberia
Thursday 9 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | David Peterson, Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y de América, Universidad del País Vasco |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Francesca Tinti, Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y de América, Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Vitoria-Gasteiz |
| Paper 1616-a | Turning the Bishop away but Letting the King in: The Livro de Mumadona of Guimarães in the Changing Scenario of the 1070s (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 1616-b | Monastic Privileges against Episcopal Rights: Conflict and Defence Strategies in the Cartularies of the Monastery of Sahagún, 11th-13th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 1616-c | From Abbot-Bishops to Abbots against Bishops: San Millán and Calahorra, 1050-1200 - The Story of a Messy Ecclesiastical Divorce (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Abstract | The boom in monastic cartulary production from the late 11th century onwards has sometimes been regarded as a side-effect of the Gregorian Reform. However, rather than being simply the result of the desire to set the respective houses (and indeed archives) in order, what we encounter repeatedly across north-western Iberia is that this fashionable genre was also employed in the defence of monastic rights against episcopal claims, often themselves, ironically, the result of diocesan reform. In this session, we will contemplate three different case studies (Guimarães in Portugal, and Sahagún and San Millán in Spain) in which diocesan-monastic conflicts act as triggers for the production of cartularies. |