TY - BOOK ID - 3533907 TI - Men in the middle AU - Patzold, Steffen AU - Rhijn, Carine van PY - 2016 VL - 93 SN - 9783110443417 3110443414 9783110436204 3110444496 3110444488 3110436205 9783110444483 PB - [Berlin] [Boston] DB - UniCat KW - Priests KW - Priesthood KW - Communities KW - Prêtres KW - Sacerdoce KW - Communauté KW - History. KW - History KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Histoire KW - Aspect religieux KW - Christianisme KW - Europe KW - Church history KW - Histoire religieuse KW - 254 <09> KW - 27 "04/14" KW - Community KW - Social groups KW - Christian priesthood KW - Ordination KW - Pastors KW - Clergy KW - Priester. Ambt:--algemeen--Geschiedenis van ... KW - Kerkgeschiedenis--Middeleeuwen KW - Prêtres KW - Communauté KW - Religious aspects&delete& KW - Christianity&delete& KW - Priester. Ambt:--algemeen--Geschiedenis van .. KW - Priester. Ambt:--algemeen--Geschiedenis van . KW - Priester. Ambt:--algemeen--Geschiedenis van KW - Priests - History KW - Priesthood - History KW - Communities - Religious aspects - Christianity - History KW - Communities - Europe KW - Europe - Church history - 600-1500 KW - Early middle ages. KW - history of Christianity. KW - social history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3533907 AB - This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. As clerics living among the laity, priests played a double role within their communities: that of local representatives of the Church and religious experts, and that of owners of land and other goods. By virtue of their membership of both the ecclesiastical and the secular world, they can be considered as ‘men in the middle’: people who brought politico-religious ideas and ideals to secular communities, and who linked the local to the supra-local via networks of landownerhsip. This book addresses both roles that local priests played by approaching them via their manuscripts, and via the charters that record transactions in which they were involved. Manuscripts once owned by local priests bear witness to their education and expertise, but also indicate how, for instance, ideals of the Carolingian reforms reached the lowest levels of early medieval society. The case-studies of collections of charters, on the other hand, show priests as active members of networks of the locally powerful in a variety of European regions. Notwithstanding many local variations, the contributions to this volume show that local priests as ‘men in the middle’ are a phenomenon shared by the early medieval world as a whole. ER -