Men in the Middle : : Local Priests in Early Medieval Europe / / ed. by Steffen Patzold, Carine van van Rhijn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Czock, Miriam,; Davies, Wendy,; Hen, Yitzhak,; Kohl, Thomas,; Meens, Rob,; Mériaux, Charles,; Patzold, Steffen,; Rhijn, Carine van,; Stoffella, Marco,; Tinti, Francesca,; Zeller, Bernhard,
• HerausgeberIn: Patzold, Steffen,; van Rhijn, Carine van,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , 93
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 252 p.)

This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. As clerics living among the laity, priests played a double role within their communities: that of local representatives of the Church and religious experts, and that of owners of land and other goods....

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Table of contents
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Practices of property and the salvation of one’s soul: Priests as men in the middle in the Wissembourg material
• 3. Local priests in early medieval Alamannia: The Charter Evidence
• 4. Presbyter in parochia sua: Local priests and their churches in early medieval Bavaria
• 5. Ideal and reality: Carolingian priests in northern Francia
• 6. Local priests in early medieval rural Tuscany
• 7. Local priests in northern Iberia
• 8. Looking for local priests in Anglo-Saxon England
• 9. Priests and books in the Merovingian period
• 10. Manuscripts for local priests and the Carolingian reforms
• 11. Pater noster: Priests and the religious instruction of the laity in the Carolingian populus christianus
• 12. Early medieval priests: Some further thoughts
• Bibliography
• Index