IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1011: Carolingian Local Priests, I: Beyond Eigenkirchen
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Steffen Patzold, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Carine van Rhijn, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 1011-a | Priests in the Village: Local Clergy in the Carolingian Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 1011-b | The Priest, the Salvation of the Soul, and the Management of Property in the Middle Rhine Region in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 1011-c | Priests in the Carolingian World: A Typology (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Abstract | The traditional image of local priests as barely educated clerics at the mercy of so-called Eigenkirchenherren is no longer viable, since recent research shows how such priests had individual agency and operated within circles of the locally powerful. At the same time it has become clear that it is too rough a generalisation to think of 'local priests' as one homogenous group of secular clergy. This session will, on the one hand, look at 'local priests in action' in order to show the possibilities and limites of their activities, while it also asks after the diverse kinds of local priests we have to reckon with. |