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The increased interest in religion as a phenomenon and its various
cultural contexts is encouraging a focus on the relationship
between religion and politics. However, the political relevance of
the religious and the interdependence between political and
religious spheres has always been a major area of medieval
research. The articles in this volume consider not only the
principle inseparability of both spheres as previously established
by research, but also the beginnings of a differentiation and
relative autonomy of religion and politics within the framework of
a comparison between Germany and the United Kingdom. This allows
the identification of restrictions within the research traditions
that are due to national histories and points to ways of overcoming
these restrictions.
In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a
dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of
a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops -
whose general importance for the time around the first milennium
has been revealed by recent scholarship - as royal counsellors and
policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops'
room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on
the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative
approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned
medievalist, Timothy Reuter. His article about "A Europe of
Bishops" ("Ein Europa der Bischofe") is presented in English
translation for the first time."
Essays bring out the important and complex roles played by
Anglo-Saxon churchmen, including Bede and lesser-known figures.
Both episcopal and abbatial authority were of fundamental
importance to the development of the Christian church in
Anglo-Saxon England. Bishops and heads of monastic houses were
invested with a variety of types of power and influence. Their
actions, decisions, and writings could change not only their own
institutions, but also the national church, while their interaction
with the king and his court affected wider contemporary society.
Theories of ecclesiastical leadership were expounded in
contemporary texts and documents. But how far did image or ideal
reflect reality? How much room was there for individuals to use
their office to promote new ideas? The papers in this
volumeillustrate the important roles played by individual leading
ecclesiastics in England, both within the church and in the wider
political sphere, from the late seventh to the mid eleventh
century. The undeniable authority of Bede and Bishop AEthelwold is
demonstrated but also the influence of less-familiar figures such
as Bishop Wulfsige of Sherborne, Archbishop Ecgberht of York and St
Leoba. The book draws on both textual and material evidence to show
the influence (by both deed and reputation) of powerful
personalities not only on the developing institutions of the
English church but also on the secular politics of their time.
Contributors: Alexander R. Rumble, Nicholas J.Higham, Martyn J.
Ryan, Cassandra Rhodes, Allan Scott McKinley, Dominik Wassenhoven,
Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Debby Banham, Joyce Hill.
Die erhohte Mobilitat im Hochmittelalter leistete einen Beitrag zur
Europaisierung Skandinaviens. Der Autor geht der Frage nach,
welchen aktiven Anteil die Skandinavier an diesem
Integrationsprozess hatten. Dazu wahlt er einen prosopographischen
Zugriff: Die Sammlung aller in nordeuropaischen und sonstigen
Quellen uberlieferten Personen, die aus Skandinavien stammten und
es mindestens ein Mal verlassen haben, ergibt einen Katalog von 855
Personen, 617 Reisen und 1152 Reiseteilnahmen. Die in den Quellen
gefundenen Wege und Stationen der Reisenden werden abgeglichen mit
einem ausfuhrlichen Itinerar des islandischen Monchs Nikulas von
Munkathvera, der um 1150 eine Reise nach Rom und Jerusalem
unternahm und daruber einen ausfuhrlichen Bericht in altnordischer
Sprache verfasste. Der Autor untersucht ausserdem anhand eines
Fallbeispiels, welche kulturellen Transferleistungen durch die
Reisen angestossen wurden."
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