IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1134: Episcopal Networks and the Gregorian Reform in Lotharingia and Champagne, 1050-1200
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Robin Moens, Historisches Institut, RWTH Aachen Universität / Département d'histoire, Université de Namur |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani, Département d'Histoire, Université de Namur |
| Paper 1134-a | The Bishops and Their Abbots: Investigating Reform Groups in the Church Province of Reims (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism |
| Paper 1134-b | Networks of the Archbishops of Trier in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 1134-c | Romanity Put to the Test: Clerical Networks in Liège at the Time of the 'Martyrdom' of Bishop Albert of Louvain, 1192 (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval |
| Abstract | As Ian Robinson realised already in the 1970s, personal networks were extremely important for medieval clerics, the more so as, contrary to their laical counterparts, their offices were not supposed to be hereditary. The last 50 years episcopal (or, more amply, clerical) networks have been considered as important vectors of clerical reform in the 11th and 12th century, but perhaps too much so. A fresh and close analysis of several clerical networks in the border region between the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire with various and complementary methodologies shows that the reality was often more complex. |