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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2025

Alice Hicklin ,
Steffen Patzold ,
Bastiaan Waagmeester  and
Charles West
Alice Hicklin
Affiliation:
King’s College London
Steffen Patzold
Affiliation:
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
Bastiaan Waagmeester
Affiliation:
Freie Universität Berlin
Charles West
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh

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Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050 , pp. v - vi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Contents

  1. List of Figures and Tables

  2. Acknowledgements

  3. List of Abbreviations

  4. Introduction

    1. I.1Historiography

    2. I.2Aims and Themes of the Book

    3. I.3Overview of the Sources

    4. I.4Geography

  5. 1What Is a Local Priest?

    1. 1.1One Degree of Ordination, Many Ways of Life

    2. 1.2Finding Local Priests: A Methodological Challenge

    3. 1.3Differences and Variance: Four Case Studies of Local Priests

    4. 1.4Conclusion

  6. 2Property

    1. 2.1Three Models, No Priests

    2. 2.2Sources of Income in the Early Tenth Century

    3. 2.3Spielraum and Agency

    4. 2.4Changes Before ca. 1050

    5. 2.5Conclusion

  7. 3Families

    1. 3.1Priests and Their Parents

    2. 3.2Pater Familias? Priests as Husbands and Fathers

    3. 3.3Family Values: Priests, Their Siblings, Uncles and Nephews

    4. 3.4Priests, Families and Church Ownership

    5. 3.5Conclusion

  8. 4Collective Action

    1. 4.1The Diocesan Synod: Historiography and Evidence

    2. 4.2Attending the Synod

    3. 4.3Disputing

    4. 4.4Listening and Learning

    5. 4.5Praying

    6. 4.6Paying

    7. 4.7Socialising

    8. 4.8The Dominance of the Bishop

    9. 4.9Conclusion

  9. 5Accounting to the Bishop

    1. 5.1From Visitation to the Sendgericht

    2. 5.2The Working of the Sendgericht

    3. 5.3Manuscripts for the Sendgericht: Shared Contents, Shared Traits

    4. 5.4Handbooks and the Practicalities of Episcopal Administration

    5. 5.5Conclusion

  10. Conclusion

    1. 1Continuities and Changes

    2. 2Typical Priestly Lifeworlds, ca. 900 and ca. 1050

    3. 3The Causes of Change

    4. 4Ausblick

  11. Appendices

    1. 1Children of local priests attested in West Frankish charters, 900–1050

    2. 2Charters made at diocesan synods, 900–1050

    3. 3English translation of the earliest version of the Admonitio Synodalis

    4. 4Shared content within the Sendgericht corpus of manuscripts

  12. Bibliography

  13. Indices

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