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The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West (Hardcover)
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The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West (Hardcover)
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Although there have been many regional studies of the proprietary
church or particular aspects of it, this is the first extensive
study of it covering most of western Europe, from the end of the
Roman Empire in the West to about 1200. The book aims at a broad
survey in varying degrees of intensity and with a shifting
geographical focus; and it asks questions that are as much social
and religious as legal or administrative. The book vindicates, for
village and estate churches, Ulrich Stutz's basic concept of a
church with its possessions, revenues, and priestly office as an
object of what we can reasonably call property. But it largely
rejects his and his followers' application of this to great
churches, and sees the position of intermediate churches (such as
small or middling monasteries) as various, changeable, and
ambivalent. Above all it turns away from Stutz's view of the
property relationship as a distinct institution or system of
'Germanic church law', presenting it rather as a fluid set of
assumptions and practices taking shape as customary law. The book
considers also the changing background of ideas and the bearing on
it of important polemical writings (with some questioning of their
established interpretations). Finally the book discusses how
property in churches was imperfectly superseded by the new
canon-law patronage, in the increasingly bureaucratic
post-Gregorian Church.
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