Monastic Exemption and Episcopal Collaboration in Later Merovingian Gaul
Between AD 637 and 728 over one hundred and seventy Gallo-Frankish bishops participated in the granting of exemptions to regional monasteries. While their participation customarily has been credited to a combination of external coercion and the pursuit of familial objectives by those scions of the s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
[2020]
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Revue bénédictine
Year: 2020, Volume: 130, Issue: 2, Pages: 197-228 |
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| Summary: | Between AD 637 and 728 over one hundred and seventy Gallo-Frankish bishops participated in the granting of exemptions to regional monasteries. While their participation customarily has been credited to a combination of external coercion and the pursuit of familial objectives by those scions of the secular office-holding elite now occupying episcopal office, the following study argues that the granting of monastic exemptions was an inherently collaborative initiative that ultimately became an expression of episcopal corporatism. Rather than representing a fragmenting of the episcopal ordo, exemptions actually strengthened its integrity through communal effort in much the same manner as participation in ecclesiastical councils. |
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| ISSN: | 2295-9009 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Revue bénédictine
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.RB.5.121989 |