IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1017: The Borders of Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Power
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Calum Platts, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Robert A. H. Evans, Sidney Sussex College / Christ Church, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1017-a | The Franks and the Evangelisation of the English: A Reassessment (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1017-b | Alter Patricius: Imitation and Competition in the Vita Albei (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
| Paper 1017-c | Good Cop, Saintly Cop: The Punishment of Thieves in Anglo-Saxon Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Law |
| Abstract | The structure of the early medieval Church generated numerous different borders of authority, which had to be accommodated. Metropolitans in their provinces and bishops in their dioceses had to be careful not to intrude upon their fellow ecclesiastics' areas of responsibility, while monastic houses and the authority of their abbots could spread themselves over dioceses, creating a new source of tension in the ecclesiastical hierarchy. All also had to negotiate with royal and local lay power. This session will examine these tensions within the Church and seek to determine how they were established and how they operated in practice. |