The Simony Crisis of the Eleventh Century and the ‘Letter of Guido’
The Epistola Widonis, or ‘Letter of Guido’, is a key source for the simony debates of the eleventh century, since it is usually considered the first major text to cast doubt on the validity of simoniacal ordinations. After examining the grounds for the letter's conventional dating to c. 1031 an...
| Veröffentlicht in: | The journal of ecclesiastical history |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2021
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Simonie
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/ Geschichte 1060
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| IxTheo Notationen: | KAE Kirchengeschichte 900-1300; Hochmittelalter RB Kirchliches Amt; Gemeinde |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The Epistola Widonis, or ‘Letter of Guido’, is a key source for the simony debates of the eleventh century, since it is usually considered the first major text to cast doubt on the validity of simoniacal ordinations. After examining the grounds for the letter's conventional dating to c. 1031 and attribution to Guido of Arezzo, this article makes the case for instead locating the letter's origins in the 1060s, and explores the implications of a re-dating for the dynamics of the eleventh-century ‘moral panic’ about simony. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046921000063 |