Reconciliation and record keeping: Heresy, secular dissent and the exercise of episcopal authority in eleventh-century Cambrai
Steven Vanderputten|Diane J. Reilly
Abstract This paper argues that the Acta synodi Atrebatensis , a putative description of synod held in 1025 by Bishop Gerard Cambrai to address then-current heresy city Arras, shows navigating his diocese’s troubled waters negotiating reconciliation whenever possible. Faced with both religious heterodoxy and its concomitant civil disruption, or depredations wrought unruly minor nobles, advertised commitment through ’s descriptions liturgical setting event, verbal exchanges gestures participants, construction written signed promise orthodoxy. These mechanisms, recorded contemporary Gesta episcoporum Cameracensium charters, were components coherent strategy developed enhance episcopal authority secular ecclesiastical spheres.
Journal of Medieval History