IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1111: Carolingian Local Priests, II: Local Manuscripts, Local Knowledge
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Carine van Rhijn, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Steffen Patzold, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Paper 1111-a | What Did Carolingian Local Priests Know (or Not)?: Some Reflections on a Letter Sent by Raban Maur to the Priest Regimboldus, c. 850 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Local History |
| Paper 1111-b | 'Instruction-Readers for Priests': Books for Educating Carolingian Local Priests (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1111-c | Prognostic Texts for Local Pastoral Care?: The Case of MS El Escorial L III 8 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Building on the first session, this second one will focus on what local priests knew. They were (or were expected to be), after all, the local experts of Christianity in the widest sense, as well as those who linked the world of bishops and kings to that of the rural population. What we can know about their level of education and know-how is based to a large extent on the manuscripts used by local priests, as well as various forms of communication with their bishops. These sources will take centre stage in order to show how new research opens up a world of local knowledge that sheds new light on the 'micro-Christendoms' of the Carolingian period. |