The Chronicle Of Hugh Of Flavigny

Author : Patrick Healy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317038474

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The Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny by Patrick Healy Pdf

This book is a detailed study of Hugh of Flavigny and his chronicle, which is widely recognised as one of the most important narratives of a crucial period of European history, that is, the Investiture Contest. Hugh's Chronicon is significant in a number of ways: as a unique source-book for some of the most important primary documents (especially papal letters) generated by the Investiture Contest; as a rare autograph manuscript which gives an important insight into contemporary modes of composition and compilation; as an important history of the 'local' effects of the Investiture Contest in the dioceses of Verdun and Autun; and as a striking autobiography of the author, Hugh of Flavigny. All these aspects are covered in this study by Patrick Healy. Other chapters investigate the context of the work in terms of ecclesiastical politics and use an analysis of the political and theological sources to illustrate the intellectual make-up of a contemporary monk, publicist - and polemicist.

Author : Patrick Healy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317038467

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The Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny by Patrick Healy Pdf

This book is a detailed study of Hugh of Flavigny and his chronicle, which is widely recognised as one of the most important narratives of a crucial period of European history, that is, the Investiture Contest. Hugh's Chronicon is significant in a number of ways: as a unique source-book for some of the most important primary documents (especially papal letters) generated by the Investiture Contest; as a rare autograph manuscript which gives an important insight into contemporary modes of composition and compilation; as an important history of the 'local' effects of the Investiture Contest in the dioceses of Verdun and Autun; and as a striking autobiography of the author, Hugh of Flavigny. All these aspects are covered in this study by Patrick Healy. Other chapters investigate the context of the work in terms of ecclesiastical politics and use an analysis of the political and theological sources to illustrate the intellectual make-up of a contemporary monk, publicist - and polemicist.

Author : Constance Brittain Bouchard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812246360

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Rewriting Saints and Ancestors by Constance Brittain Bouchard Pdf

Thinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had come before, interpreting past events to give validity to the present and help control the future. The long-dead saints who presided over churches and the ancestors of established dynasties were an especially crucial part of creative memory, Constance Brittain Bouchard contends. In Rewriting Saints and Ancestors she examines how such ex post facto accounts are less an impediment to the writing of accurate history than a crucial tool for understanding the Middle Ages. Working backward through time, Bouchard discusses twelfth-century scribes contemplating the ninth-century documents they copied into cartularies or reworked into narratives of disaster and triumph, ninth-century churchmen deliberately forging supposedly late antique documents as weapons against both kings and other churchmen, and sixth- and seventh-century Gallic writers coming to terms with an early Christianity that had neither the saints nor the monasteries that would become fundamental to religious practice. As they met with political change and social upheaval, each generation decided which events of the past were worth remembering and which were to be reinterpreted or quietly forgotten. By considering memory as an analytic tool, Bouchard not only reveals the ways early medieval writers constructed a useful past but also provides new insights into the nature of record keeping, the changing ways dynasties were conceptualized, the relationships of the Merovingian and Carolingian kings to the church, and the discovery (or invention) of Gaul's earliest martyrs.

Author : David Thomas,David Richard Thomas,Barbara Roggema
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004195158

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 3 (1050-1200) by David Thomas,David Richard Thomas,Barbara Roggema Pdf

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 3 (CMR3) is a history of all the works on Christian-Muslim relations from 1050 to 1200. It comprises introductory essays and over one hundred entries containing descriptions, assessments and comprehensive bibliographical details of individual works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004216167

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 3 (1050-1200) by Anonim Pdf

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 3 (CMR3) is a history of all the works on Christian-Muslim relations from 1050 to 1200. It comprises introductory essays and over one hundred entries containing descriptions, assessments and comprehensive bibliographical details of individual works.

Author : Laura L. Gathagan,Laura Wangerin,William North
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783277520

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The Haskins Society Journal 33 - 2021 by Laura L. Gathagan,Laura Wangerin,William North Pdf

Continuing the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages, interrogating primary documents to yield new insights into our understanding of the past.

Author : Benjamin Pohl,Pohl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198795377

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Abbatial Authority and the Writing of History in the Middle Ages by Benjamin Pohl,Pohl Pdf

This book argues that abbatial authority was fundamental to monastic historical writing in the period c.500-1500. Writing history was a collaborative enterprise integral to the life and identity of medieval monastic communities, but it was not an activity for which time and resources were set aside routinely. Each act of historiographical production constituted an extraordinary event, one for which singular provision had to be made, workers and materials assigned, time carved out from the monastic routine, and licence granted. This allocation of human and material resources was the responsibility and prerogative of the monastic superior. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of primary evidence gathered from across the medieval Latin West, this book is the first to investigate systematically how and why abbots and abbesses exercised their official authority and resources to lay the foundations on which their communities' historiographical traditions were built by themselves and others. It showcases them as prolific authors, patrons, commissioners, project managers, and facilitators of historical narratives who not only regularly put pen to parchment personally, but also, and perhaps more importantly, enabled others inside and outside their communities by granting them the resources and licence to write. Revealing the intrinsic relationship between abbatial authority and the writing of history in the Middle Ages with unprecedented clarity, Benjamin Pohl urges us to revisit and revise our understanding of monastic historiography, its processes, and its protagonists in ways that require some radical rethinking of the medieval historian's craft in communal and institutional contexts.

Author : Marjorie Chibnall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0851156215

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The World of Orderic Vitalis by Marjorie Chibnall Pdf

`A wise, learned, gracefully written account of the Anglo-Norman world and its most remarkable chronicler.' SPECULUM Orderic Vitalis, born near Shrewsbury in 1075 and sent as a child oblate to the Norman abbey of Saint-Evroult, wrote one of the most vivid and important medieval chronicles. His world encompassed Shropshire in the aftermath of theConquest, Normandy in civil war and at peace, and, briefly, the wider French perspective of the priory of Maule. Saint-Evroult was open to all the cross-currents of a changing society, and Orderic witnessed fundamental changes inchurch organisation, patterns of aristocratic inheritance, attitudes towards knighthood, and Christian militancy towards non-Christians. This book is concerned with monastic life and culture and its interaction with the life of courts and Norman families. It also describes the life of Orderic himself, and an appendix gives a translation of his own moving account of his life, an epilogue to the Historia.MARJORIE CHIBNALL is a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She has written many booksand articles about the Anglo-Norman world, including an edition of Orderic's Ecclesiastical History.

Author : Charles W. Connell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110432176

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Popular Opinion in the Middle Ages by Charles W. Connell Pdf

This book provides a needed overview of the scholarship on medieval public culture and popular movements such as the Peace of God, heresy, and the crusades and illustrates how a changing sense of the populus, the importance of publics and public opinion and public spheres was influential in the evolution of medieval cultures. Public opinion did play an important role, even in the Middle Ages; it did not wait until the era of modern history to do so. Using modern research on such aspects of culture as textual communities, large and small publics, cults, crowds, rumor, malediction, gossip, dispute resolution and the European popular revolution, the author focuses on the Peace of God movement, the era of Church reform in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the rise and combat of heresy, the crusades, and the works of fourteenth-century political thinkers such as Marsiglio of Padua regarding the role of the populus as the basis for the analysis. The pattern of changes reflected in this study argues that just as in the modern world the simplistic idea of “the public‎” was a phantom. Instead there were publics large and small that were influential in shaping the cultures of the era under review.

Author : Steven Vanderputten
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801456305

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Imagining Religious Leadership in the Middle Ages by Steven Vanderputten Pdf

Around the turn of the first millennium AD, there emerged in the former Carolingian Empire a generation of abbots that came to be remembered as one of the most influential in the history of Western monasticism. In this book Steven Vanderputten reevaluates the historical significance of this generation of monastic leaders through an in-depth study of one of its most prominent figures, Richard of Saint-Vanne. During his lifetime, Richard (d. 1046) served as abbot of numerous monasteries, which gained him a reputation as a highly successful administrator and reformer of monastic discipline. As Vanderputten shows, however, a more complex view of Richard’s career, spirituality, and motivations enables us to better evaluate his achievements as church leader and reformer. Vanderputten analyzes various accounts of Richard’s life, contemporary sources that are revealing of his worldview and self-conception, and the evidence relating to his actions as a monastic reformer and as a promoter of conversion. Richard himself conceived of his life as an evolving commentary on a wide range of issues relating to individual spirituality, monastic discipline, and religious leadership. This commentary, which combined highly conservative and revolutionary elements, reached far beyond the walls of the monastery and concerned many of the issues that would divide the church and its subjects in the later eleventh century.

Author : The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520327320

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Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 9 (1978) by The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Pdf

Author : Bruce C. Brasington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351955270

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Bishops, Texts and the Use of Canon Law around 1100 by Bruce C. Brasington Pdf

The essays in this volume in honour of Martin Brett address issues relating to the compilation and transmission of canon law collections, the role of bishops in their dissemination, as well as the interpretation and use of law in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The studies are grouped thematically under the headings 'Bishops and Their Texts', and 'Texts and the Use of Canon Law'. These reflect important areas of contention in the historiographical literature and hence will further the debates regarding not simply the compilation and dissemination of canonical collections in the earlier middle ages, but also the development of the practical application of canon law within Europe, especially after c.1080. Individually, the contributors offer new viewpoints on key issues and questions relating to the creation of canonical texts, their transmission and use on both sides of the English Channel in the decades either side of the year 1100. Collectively, the essays explore the methods and motives of compilers, assess the use of law, find readers both in the compilation of texts and within their margins, and - perhaps most importantly - speculate where possible about the living communities in which these texts were compiled, copied and used.

Author : William North
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838890

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The Haskins Society Journal 23 by William North Pdf

The most up-to-date research in the period from the Anglo-Saxons to Angevins.

Author : Diane J. Reilly
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047409472

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The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Saint-Vaast Bible by Diane J. Reilly Pdf

Using the political and theological writings of the eleventh-century churchmen Gerard of Cambrai and Richard of Saint-Vanne, this study argues that the Flemish Saint-Vaast Bible's illuminations defended the continued hegemony of the then embattled offices of King and Bishop.

Author : Kathleen G. Cushing
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198207247

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Papacy and Law in the Gregorian Revolution by Kathleen G. Cushing Pdf

This work explores the role of canon law in the ecclesiastical reform movement of the eleventh century, commonly known as the Gregorian Reform. Focusing on the Collectio canonum of Bishop Anselm of Lucca, it explores how the reformers came to value and employ law as a means of achieving desired ends in a time of social upheaval and revolution.