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IN TE R N A TIO N A L ED IEVA L ESEARCH, 6 egotiating Secular & Ecclesiastical Power BREPOLS Edited by H enk Teunis, Andrew Wareham, A rnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld International Medieval Research Selected Proceedings of the International Medieval Congress University of Leeds I Traditional historiography generally stresses the opposition and contradiction between secular and ecclesiastical power. By contrast, this volume focuses upon the interdependence o f secular and ecclesiastical power and on the ways both secular rulers, kings, counts and other lords, and ecclesiastical authorities and institutions continuously interacted, trying to affirm the relationships between them . This selection o f a historiographical in troduction plus nine case-studies from England, northern France and the Low C ountries enables a subtle com parison o f secular and ecclesiastical links and social interactions in a series o f regional and local contexts during the C entral M iddle Ages. T he volume dem onstrates that this process o f negotiation led to an affirmation o f shared values and con tribu ted to the creation o f com m on social values in medieval Europe. Ludo Milis (Universiteit G ent), “This book, com posed around three major themes (‘Texts as Tools o f Power’, ‘Land and K insh ip , and ‘Conflict and A ffirm ation), exemplifies how medievalists can reshape their discipline into a m ore responsive one. Its scope is no t to offer a wide range o f definitive explanations, bu t it shows how medievalists should try (and indeed do try) to return to a close reading o f their docum ents. For far too long, institutional history, legal history, and histoire événementielle have tried to m onopolize power relationships and to encapsulate them in rather narrow explanatory schemes. This volume offers a broader and more encom passing approach.” Cover image from Munich, Bayerische Nationalbibliothek, cim 28565, f. 3r ISBN 2-503-50872-3 imi 9782503508726 IN T E R N A T IO N A L MEDI EV AL IN ST IT UT E > 782503 508726 In t e r n a t io n a l M e d ie v a l R e s e a r c h : Selected Proceedings of the International Medieval Congress University of Leeds V o l u m e 6 Editorial Board Axel E.W. Müller, Alan V. Murray, Ian N. Wood with the assistance of the IMC Programming Committee Editorial Assistants Amanda Banton Elizabeth Wall Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power: Western Europe in the Central Middle Ages N e g o t ia t in g Se c u l a r a n d E c c l e s ia s t ic a l P o w e r Western Europe in the Central Middle Ages Edited by Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Henk Teunis, and Andrew Wareham International Medieval Research 6 BREPOLS Tumhout, Belgium 1999 © BREPOLS1999 Printed in the European Union on acid-free paper. D/1999/0095/47 ISBN 2-503-50872-3 A ll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Contents List of Illustrations and Maps...............................................................vii Preface.................................................................................................... ix Ludo J.R. Milis Introduction............................................................................................ xi Amoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Henk Teunis, & Andrew Wareham Notes on Contributors........................................................................... xv List of Abbreviations............................................................................xix Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power in the Central Middle Ages: A Historiographical Introduction.................................... 1 Henk Teunis Part One . Texts as Tools of Power The Political Use of Piety in Episcopal and Comital Charters of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries...................................................... 19 Benoît-Michel Tock The Crisis of Episcopal Authority in Guibert of Nogent’s Monodiae...............................................................................................37 Trudy Lemmers VI Contents Relies as Tools of Power: The Eleventh-Century Inventio of St Bertin’s Relies and the Assertion of Abbot Bovo’s Authority..........51 Karine Ugé Monastic Freedom vs. Episcopal and Aristocratic Power in the Twelfth Century: Context and Analysis of the De libertate Beccensis............................................................................................. 73 Julie Potter Part Two . Land and Kinship Bishops as Contenders for Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England: The Bishopric of East Anglia and the Regional Aristocracy............. 89 Christine Senecal Two Models of Marriage: Kinship and the Social Order in England and Normandy.......................................................................107 Andrew Wareham Forging Unity between Monks and Laity in Anglo-Norman England: The Fraternity of Ramsey Abbey.......................................133 Hirokazu Tsurushima Part Three . Conflict and Affirmation Parchment and Power in Abbey and Cathedral: Chartres, Sherborne and Vezelay, c. 1000-1175.............................................. 149 John O. Ward Conflict and Compromise: The Premonstratensians of Nino ve (Flanders) and the Laity in the Twelfth Century...............................167 Amoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld Index of Persons...................................................................................185 Index of Places..................................................................................... 191 Thematic Index.................................................................................... 195
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