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Author:   Susan Wood (Emeritus Fellow, St Hugh's College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 5.60cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   1.739kg
ISBN:  

9780199552634

ISBN 10:   0199552630
Pages:   1020
Publication Date:   18 December 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Beginnings 1: The Roman Empire and Post-Roman Kingdoms 2: A New Stage: Bavaria, Alemania, and Lombard Italy, Mid-Eighth to Mid-Ninth Century 3: The Converging of Private and Parish Churches 4: The Question of Origins 5: Early Monasteries: Their Founders and Abbotts 6: Some Non-Frankish Patterns of Family Interest in Monasteries 7: Transition to Outside Lordship of Monasteries 8: The Emergence of Bishop's Lordship over Monasteries 9: The Emergence of Lay Ruler's Lordship over Monasteries Part II: Lordship over Higher Churches, Ninth to Eleventh Centuries 10: Kings and Princes 11: Nobles other than Founder's Heirs 12: Noble Founders and their Heirs 13: Great Churches as Lords of Monasteries Part III: Lower Churches as Property, Ninth to Eleventh Centuries 14: Lesser Churches' Resources in Lands and other Possessions 15: Lesser Churches' Resources in Tithes and Offerings 16: Proprietors' Arrangements with their Priests 17: Lay Proprietors 18: Priests as Proprietors 19: Higher Churches as Proprietors 20: Some Proprietary Elements in a Bishop's Authority Part IV: Ideas, Opinion, Change 21: The Juridical Condition of Churches 22: Legislation and Reforming Opinion 23: Monastic Reform: Lordship and Liberty 24: Gregorian Reform 25: Towards a Bureaucratic Church 26: The Longer Term Bibliography Index

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This is a book that adds substantially to the sum of knowledge Julia Barrow, Medium Aevum No other scholar has treated this subject in so comprehensive and detailed a way as Susan Wood. TLS Wood has shown that proprietary churches were an integral part of Christian society. The research is exhaustive; the writing is appealing in its clarity; and the judgements are based on long and wise reflection. The author has written a truly great book. Dr Nicholas Orme, Church Times [A] formidable, fascinating, actually readable book Richard Kay, American Historical Review the new locus classicus for those looking for a definitive, comparative and long-tearm study of how and in what way churches were owned in the early Middle Ages, and of when and in what ways that changed. Charles West, Ecclesiastic History Admirable and forceful clarity...undoubtedly the new locus classicus for those looking for a definitive, comparative and long-term study of how and in what way churches were owned in the early Middle Ages, and of when and in what ways that changed. Journal of Ecclesiastical History Here, then, sustained across nearly a thousand pages, seen through the bifocal lenses of a richly paradoxical theme, is a comprehensive vision of the earlier medieval world, in which every piece of evidence touched on is handled with respect, every person with sympathy, and the interrelationships between ideas and practices analysed with rare finesse. This book is not Mansfield Park or Barchester Towers: it is a historian's Middlemarch. Janet Nelson, English Historical Review

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Susan Wood is an Emeritus Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford where she was a Lecturer, Fellow, and Tutor for over 35 years.

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