IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 328: Networking the Diocese: Material Transactions in Early and High Medieval Bishoprics
Monday 3 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Philipp Winterhager, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
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| Moderator/Chairs: | Joana Hansen, Geschichte des frühen und hohen Mittelalters sowie für Historische Grundwissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Bastiaan Waagmeester, Graduiertenkolleg 1662 'Religiöses Wissen im vormodernen Europa (800–1800)', Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Paper 328-a | Temporal Wealth and Eternal Needs: Some Thoughts on the Temporalities of Ecclesiastical Economies in the Earlier Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Economics - General |
| Paper 328-b | Poor, Meek, Mourning... but Successful: Archiepiscopal Strategies in Vulkuld's Life of Bardo of Mainz (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - General, Hagiography |
| Paper 328-c | Fiefs and Mortgages: Material Transactions in the Episcopal Charters of Bamberg in the 12th and 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Economics - General |
| Abstract | Medieval bishops have traditionally been studied through the lens of royal politics and ecclesiastical reforms, but only more recently as regional players in their dioceses. This panel highlights one aspect that needs to be readdressed in this context. Material transactions - gift, loan, exchange of property, transfer of tithes etc - provide an opportunity to trace not only the existence, but the making of local and regional networks between bishops and the various actors in their dioceses. The panel thus focuses on modes of networking. It addresses material transaction as social practice, the strategies behind diocesan exchange, and the language used in various genres (narrative sources, charters, synodal decrees) to analyse these regional networkings. The papers adapts these questions with regard to different regions of western and central Europe and from Merovingian times through the 12th/13th centuries. |