LEADER 04573 am 22007333u 450 001 9910341840803321 005 20200917021826.0 010 $a3-11-044448-8 010 $a3-11-043620-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110444483 035 $a(DE-576)46993820X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000714706 035 $a(EBL)4587109 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001673768 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16472367 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001673768 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15013179 035 $a(PQKB)10612257 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4587109 035 $a(DE-B1597)456872 035 $a(OCoLC)951138580 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110444483 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4587109 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11235389 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL939339 035 $a(OCoLC)953661826 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000714706 100 $a20160808h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMen in the middle $elocal priests in early medieval Europe /$fedited by Steffen Patzold and Carine van Rhijn 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 225 1 $aReallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde - Erga?nzungsba?nde,$x1866-7678 ;$vBand 93 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-044449-6 311 $a3-11-044341-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPreface -- $tTable of contents -- $tAbbreviations -- $t1. Introduction -- $t2. Practices of property and the salvation of one?s soul: Priests as men in the middle in the Wissembourg material -- $t3. Local priests in early medieval Alamannia: The Charter Evidence -- $t4. Presbyter in parochia sua: Local priests and their churches in early medieval Bavaria -- $t5. Ideal and reality: Carolingian priests in northern Francia -- $t6. Local priests in early medieval rural Tuscany -- $t7. Local priests in northern Iberia -- $t8. Looking for local priests in Anglo-Saxon England -- $t9. Priests and books in the Merovingian period -- $t10. Manuscripts for local priests and the Carolingian reforms -- $t11. Pater noster: Priests and the religious instruction of the laity in the Carolingian populus christianus -- $t12. Early medieval priests: Some further thoughts -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThis volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. As clerics living among the laity, priests played a double role within their communities: that of local representatives of the Church and religious experts, and that of owners of land and other goods. By virtue of their membership of both the ecclesiastical and the secular world, they can be considered as ?men in the middle?: people who brought politico-religious ideas and ideals to secular communities, and who linked the local to the supra-local via networks of landownerhsip. This book addresses both roles that local priests played by approaching them via their manuscripts, and via the charters that record transactions in which they were involved. Manuscripts once owned by local priests bear witness to their education and expertise, but also indicate how, for instance, ideals of the Carolingian reforms reached the lowest levels of early medieval society. The case-studies of collections of charters, on the other hand, show priests as active members of networks of the locally powerful in a variety of European regions. Notwithstanding many local variations, the contributions to this volume show that local priests as ?men in the middle? are a phenomenon shared by the early medieval world as a whole. 410 0$aErga?nzungsba?nde zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde ;$vBand 93. 606 $aPriests$xHistory 606 $aPriesthood$xHistory 606 $aCommunities$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory 606 $aCommunities$zEurope 607 $aEurope$xChurch history$y600-1500 615 0$aPriests$xHistory. 615 0$aPriesthood$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunities$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunities 676 $a262/.14240902 702 $aPatzold$b Steffen 702 $aRhijn$b Carine van 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910341840803321 996 $aMen in the middle$92288394 997 $aUNINA