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  • Chapter 4 - Collective Action

  • Alice Hicklin, King’s College London, Steffen Patzold, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany, Bastiaan Waagmeester, Freie Universität Berlin, Charles West, University of Edinburgh
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    Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
    Published online:
    31 October 2025
    Print publication:
    13 November 2025, pp 131-172
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    This chapter looks at moments when local priests came together. It focuses on the diocesan synod, the regular meeting which in theory all priests in the diocese were supposed to attend. Drawing on different kinds of evidence, including liturgies, charters, sermons, hagiography and poems, it argues that local priests attended these meetings more frequently than has been supposed, and examines what sort of things they might have learned and experienced at the synod. It argues for a change in the nature of the diocesan synod from the year 1000, as the occasion became more ceremonial, perhaps as part of episcopal strategies of representation, but perhaps also simply in response to the rising numbers of attendees, as the Church network continued to expand and consolidate.