Bishops, Saints, and Historians

Studies in the Ecclesiastical History of Medieval Britain and Italy

Robert Brentano, edited by William L. North

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000939286
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Throughout his career, Robert Brentano attempted to understand the nature and 'style' of ecclesiastical institutions in Italy and the British Isles, the specific qualities of saints and the communities that formed around them, and the ways in which seemingly cryptic archival remains of medieval administrative activity, as well as chronicles and lives, could reveal vital details about change and continuity in local and regional religious life and even 'the color of men's souls'. These issues are explored in the essays assembled in Parts I (Bishops) and II (Saints). Part III (Historians) brings together articles that examine the writing of history by both medieval authors and modern historians, and includes Brentano's reflections on his own practice as an historian. The introduction by W. L. North offers a brief biography and introduction to reading Brentano's works, followed by a complete bibliography of his publications.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction, by W.L. North
• Bibliography of the Works of Robert J. Brentano, compiled by W.L. North
• Acknowledgements
• I The Whithorn vacancy of 1293-94
• II Late medieval changes in the administration of vacant suffragan dioceses: province of York
• III The bishops’ books of Città di Castello
• IV Sealed documents ofthe mediaeval archbishops at Amalfi
• V Vescovi e collocazione socio-culturale del clero parrocchiale
• VI Notarial cartularies and religious personality: Rome, Rieti, and Bishop Thomas of Secinaro (1339-1341)
• VII Vescovi e vicari generali nel basso medioevo
• VIII The local church of Amalfi in the context ofltalian ecclesiastical institutions in the 13th and 14th centuries (La chiesa locale di Amalfi nel contesto delle instituzioni ecclesiastiche italiane tra XIII e XIV secolo)
• IX Francis of Assisi’s gloss of Matthew: 6:34
• X Early Franciscans and Italian towns
• XI “Do not say that this is a man from Assisi”
• XII Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, and a caterva virginum
• XIII Filippa Mareri, la santa baronessa, la santa del Cicolano
• XIV Santa Filippa Mareri nel movimento religioso femminile del secolo XIII
• XV II movimento religioso femminile a Rieti nei secoli XIII-XIV
• XVI Peter of Morrone, space, and the problem of relics
• XVII Sulmona society and the miracles of Peter of Morrone
• XVIII Identities and national formation: Does religion integrate or disperse communities?
• XIX II sogno di Sant’ Anselmo e lo sviluppo della biografía medievale
• XX samson of Bury revisited
• XXI The Jurisdictio Spiritualis: an example offifteenth-century English historiography
• XXI The sound of stubbs
• XXIII Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906)
• XXIV The chronicle of Francesco Venimbeni da Fabriano
• XXV Matteo Camera’s masterpiece
• XXVI Italian ecclesiastical history: the Sambin revolution
• XXVII Bishops and saints
• Index