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Author Savill, Benjamin, 1988- author.

Title England and the papacy in the Early Middle Ages : papal privileges in European perspective, c. 680-1073 / Benjamin Savill
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Oxford Historical Monographs
Oxford historical monographs.
Contents Intro -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- I. State of Research -- II. This Book: Scope and Structure -- Part I. Understanding The Corpus -- 2. Getting to Grips with Papal Privileges in the Early Middle Ages -- I. The Petition -- II. Concession, Composition, and Conveyance -- III. Return and Recognition -- IV. Conclusions -- 3. An Annotated Handlist of Papal Privileges in Early Medieval England -- A. Beginnings to the Mid-Eighth Century -- B. Late Eighth and Ninth Centuries -- C. The Tenth Century -- D. From 1000 to 1073 -- E. Summary -- Part II. Papal Privileges in England Four Studies -- 4. Papal Privileges in the 'Age of Bede' (c. 680-c. 730) -- I. The Continental Background -- II. Exotic Imports? The View from England -- III. Episcopal Expansion, the 'Minster Boom', and Twinned Monasteries in England -- IV. Conclusions -- 5. Papal Privileges and the 'Mercian Supremacy' (c. 770-c. 830) -- I. Property and Genealogy: Offa, Cynethryth, and Hadrian -- II. Consolidation, 798: Coenwulf, Cynethryth, and Leo -- III. Confrontation: Wulfred, Cwoenthryth, and Paschal -- IV. Conclusions -- 6. Papal Privileges and the English Benedictine Movement (c. 960-c. 1000) -- I. The Pallium Privilege: Dunstan and His Continental Counterparts -- II. Privileges for Tenth-Century Monasteries: Winchester and Ramsey in (and out of) Context -- III. Papal Excommunication: Ælfric of Hampshire and the Monks of Glastonbury -- IV. Conclusions -- 7. Papal Privileges in England and the Coming of the 'Papal Revolution' (1049-73) -- I. Understanding the Early Papal Reform Movement -- II. England's Early Reform Privileges: Four Categories of Evidence -- III. Making Sense of the Evidence -- IV. Conclusions -- 8. Coda: Remembering, Inventing, and Forgetting -- 9. Conclusions -- Appendix: A Note on Some Items Excluded from the Handlist -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 07, 2023)
Subject Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- England
Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Historiography
Papacy -- History.
Privileges and immunities, Ecclesiastical.
SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 449-1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043264
England -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church
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