Episcopal Power and Ecclesiastical Reform in the German Empire
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Episcopal Power and Ecclesiastical Reform in the German Empire

Tithes, Lordship, and Community, 950–1150

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Episcopal Power and Ecclesiastical Reform in the German Empire

Tithes, Lordship, and Community, 950–1150

About this book

Focusing on the way bishops in the eleventh century used the ecclesiastical tithe - church taxes - to develop or re-order ties of loyalty and dependence within their dioceses, this book offers a new perspective on episcopacy in medieval Germany and Italy. Using three broad case studies from the dioceses of Mainz, Salzburg and Lucca in Tuscany, John Eldevik places the social dynamics of collecting the church tithe within current debates about religious reform, social change and the so-called 'feudal revolution' in the eleventh century, and analyses a key economic institution, the medieval tithe, as a social and political phenomenon. By examining episcopal churches and their possessions not in institutional terms, but as social networks which bishops were obliged to negotiate and construct over time using legal, historiographical and interpersonal means, this comparative study casts fresh light on the history of early medieval society.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. EPISCOPAL POWER AND ECCLESIASTICAL REFORM IN THE GERMAN EMPIRE
  3. Series Editor
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. CONTENTS
  7. MAPS AND FIGURES
  8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  9. ABREVIATIONS
  10. A NOTE ON NAMES AND TRANSLATIONS
  11. Introduction: BISHOPS, POWER, AND MEDIEVAL SOCIETY: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH
  12. Chapter 1: THE SOCIAL WORLDS OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL TITHE
  13. Chapter 2: TITHES, BISHOPS, AND SOCIETY IN FRANKISH EUROPE
  14. Chapter 3: LANDSCAPES OF EPISCOPAL AUTHORITY: LUCCA, MAINZ, AND SALZBURG
  15. Chapter 4: DIABOLIC CONTRACTS: THE LEASING OF PIEVI AND PERCEPTIONS OF ORDER AND POWER IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ITALY
  16. Chapter 5: PIETY, POWER, AND MEMORY: BISHOPS AND TITHES IN THE DIOCESE OF SALZBURG
  17. Chapter 6: THE STRUGGLE FOR TITHES IN AN AGE OF TRANSITION
  18. CONCLUSION
  19. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  20. INDEX