Benjamin Savill

England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages

Papal Privileges in European Perspective, C. 680-1073

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Produktbeschreibung

A detailed study of the relationship between England and the papacy across its first five centuries, from the times of Bede up to the Norman Conquest. It reassesses that relationship through a detailed study of a hitherto understudied corpus of papal documentary sources. It sets developments in England within a wider comparative European context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 147mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198887058
• ISBN-10: 0198887051
• Artikelnr.: 68058624

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Savill is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut). He studied at University College London and Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

* Maps
* Table
* Figures
* Abbreviations
* Acknowledgements
* 1: Introduction
* PART I. Understanding The Corpus
* 2: Getting to grips with papal privileges in the early middle ages
* 3: An annotated handlist of papal privileges in early medieval
England
* PART II. Papal Privileges In England: Four Studies
* 4: Papal privileges in the 'Age of Bede' (c. 680-c. 730)
* 5: Papal privileges and the 'Mercian Supremacy' (c. 770-c. 830)
* 6: Papal privileges and the English Benedictine movement (c. 960-c.
1000)
* 7: Papal privileges and the coming of the 'Papal Revolution'
(1049-73)
* 8: Coda: Remembering, inventing, and forgetting
* 9: Conclusions
* Bibliography
* Appendix: A note on some items excluded from the handlist