Patterns of Medieval Society

324 Pages·1969·14.309 MB·English

by  Jeremy duQuesnay Adams

Jeremy duQuesnay Adams is Assistant Professor of
History at Yale University, where he has served as
Director of Graduate Studies for the Medieval Studies
Program. His doctoral thesis, Sense of Community in
the Early Middle Ages: ‘populus’ and other socio­
political terms in the works of Jerome, Augustine, and
Isidore of Seville, is now being considered by univer­
sity presses. At present he holds a fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Humanities for 1969-70
to work on a book on alien-exclusion policies in Visi-
gothic Spain (fifth-eighth centuries a.d.).

PATTERNS OF MEDIEVAL SOCIETY

Patterns of
MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
Jeremy duQuesnay Adams
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CONTENTS
1
INTRODUCTION
I. CHRISTENDOM 4
The Inner Order
1. ROGATION DAYS
Avitus: Homily VI, 7 Apollinaris Sidonius: Letters, 10
Canons of the Council of Orleans, 12
2. CHURCH-BUILDING BROTHERHOODS
Letter of Haimo, 14 Letter of Hugh, 16
3. PEACE ASSOCIATIONS WITHIN
THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY
Decree of the Emperor Henry IV, 18
4. RANKS AND DIVIDED FUNCTIONS
WITHIN THE HOUSE OF GOD
Adalbero of Laon: Panegyric to King Robert the Pious
of France, 22
5. WOMAN S PLACE
Bede: Ecclesiastical History, 25 Johann Nider: Formt-
carius, 31
Defining the Boundaries
6. THE EXTENT OF THE “ROMAN WORLD"
Ralph Glaber: History of His Times, 34
7. THE CALL TO CRUSADE
Robert the Monk: The lerusalemite History, 39
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viii Contents
8. WHAT ABOUT THE GREEKS?
Odo of Deuil: The Journey of Louis VII to the East, 43
9. THE HEATHEN OF THE NORTHEAST
Helmold: Chronicle of the Slavs, 47
10. THE SARACEN FRONTIER
Charter of Louis the Pious for Spanish Refugees, 815, 54
Ibn Al-Khatib: Book of the Deeds of Distinguished
Men, 57
11. THE JEWISH PROBLEM
Charter of Frederick I to the Jews of Worms, 62 Char­
ter of Bishop Rudeger to the Jews of Speyer, 65 Geof­
frey of Vigeois: Chronicle, 66 Exemption Granted by
Bishop William III to the Jews of Béziers, 66 Roger of
Hoveden: Annals, 68 Guibert de Nogent: On His Own
Life, 70
12. HERETICS: SECESSION
Bernard Gui: The Inquisitor's Manual, 74 Caesarius
of Heisterbach: The Dialogue of Miracles, Book V, 78
The Universal Catastrophe
13. THE BLACK DEATH, 1347-50
Henry Knighton: Compilation of Events in England,
Book IV, 81
II. THE CLERGY 85
Development of Distinctive Behavior
1. THE MONASTIC RULE
St. Benedict's Rule for Monasteries, 86
2. RECRUITMENT OF PRELATES
Gregory of Tours: History of the Franks, Book X, 90
3. SCANDALS AFFECTING CLERICAL ORDER
Gregory of Tours: History of the Franks, Book I, 96
Gregory of Tours: History of the Franks, Book IX, 97