Part I: Beginnings
1: The Roman Empire and Post-Roman Kingdoms
2: A New Stage: Bavaria, Alemania, and Lombard Italy, Mid-Eighth to
Mid-Ninth Century
3: The Converging of Private and Parish Churches
4: The Question of Origins
5: Early Monasteries: Their Founders and Abbotts
6: Some Non-Frankish Patterns of Family Interest in Monasteries
7: Transition to Outside Lordship of Monasteries
8: The Emergence of Bishop's Lordship over Monasteries
9: The Emergence of Lay Ruler's Lordship over Monasteries
Part II: Lordship over Higher Churches, Ninth to Eleventh
Centuries
10: Kings and Princes
11: Nobles other than Founder's Heirs
12: Noble Founders and their Heirs
13: Great Churches as Lords of Monasteries
Part III: Lower Churches as Property, Ninth to Eleventh
Centuries
14: Lesser Churches' Resources in Lands and other Possessions
15: Lesser Churches' Resources in Tithes and Offerings
16: Proprietors' Arrangements with their Priests
17: Lay Proprietors
18: Priests as Proprietors
19: Higher Churches as Proprietors
20: Some Proprietary Elements in a Bishop's Authority
Part IV: Ideas, Opinion, Change
21: The Juridical Condition of Churches
22: Legislation and Reforming Opinion
23: Monastic Reform: Lordship and Liberty
24: Gregorian Reform
25: Towards a Bureaucratic Church
26: The Longer Term
Bibliography
Index
Susan Wood is an Emeritus Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford where she was a Lecturer, Fellow, and Tutor for over 35 years.
This is a book that adds substantially to the sum of knowledge Julia Barrow, Medium Aevum No other scholar has treated this subject in so comprehensive and detailed a way as Susan Wood. TLS Wood has shown that proprietary churches were an integral part of Christian society. The research is exhaustive; the writing is appealing in its clarity; and the judgements are based on long and wise reflection. The author has written a truly great book. Dr Nicholas Orme, Church Times [A] formidable, fascinating, actually readable book Richard Kay, American Historical Review the new locus classicus for those looking for a definitive, comparative and long-tearm study of how and in what way churches were owned in the early Middle Ages, and of when and in what ways that changed. Charles West, Ecclesiastic History
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