The court book of Mende and the secular lordship of the bishop : recollecting the past in thirteenth-century Gévaudan /

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Mende is a diocese in south-central France where, in the 1260s, scribes of Bishop Odilon de Mercoeur created an extensive court book or register of litigated cases. Their intention was to develop an archive for the use of the chancery as well as to preserve the causae of the episcopal court. These r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bulman, Jan K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2008
Temas:
Catholic Church. > Diocese of Mende (France) > History > 13th century.
Catholic Church. > Diocese of Mende (France)
1200-1299
Court records > France > Gévaudan > History > 13th century.
Bishops > France > Gévaudan > Temporal power > History > 13th century.
Church and state > France > Catholic Church > History > 13th century.
Collective memory > France > Gévaudan > History > 13th century.
Tribunaux > Dossiers > France > Gévaudan > Histoire > 13e siècle.
Évêques > France > Gévaudan > Pouvoir temporel > Histoire > 13e siècle.
Église et État > France > Église catholique > Histoire > 13e siècle.
Mémoire collective > France > Gévaudan > Histoire > 13e siècle.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Bishops > Temporal power
Church and state > Catholic Church
Collective memory
Court records
France
France > Gévaudan
History
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Sumario:Mende is a diocese in south-central France where, in the 1260s, scribes of Bishop Odilon de Mercoeur created an extensive court book or register of litigated cases. Their intention was to develop an archive for the use of the chancery as well as to preserve the causae of the episcopal court. These records would later be used by Guillaume Durand the Younger to construct a version of the past which verified episcopal secular lordship and sovereignty in response to mounting intrusion by the king of France. For all of its importance to the history of religion in France, the court book of Mende has received little attention by historians and medieval scholars. In this study, Jan K. Bulman examines the interrelationships between the written records of the ecclesiastical court, the preservation of historical memory, and the defense of episcopal seigneurial rights. Bulman shows how the bishops of Mende followed a singular strategy to defend against loss of autonomy, one that was unique in its reliance on archival records, ancient charters, and narrative hagiography. Richly presented and comprehensively researched, this will be an indispensable work for scholars of religion and the history of medieval France.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, [2], 179 pages : map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781442687752
1442687754

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