Papal Privileges and the English Benedictine Movement (<i>c</i>. 960–<i>c</i>. 1000)
Benjamin Savill
Abstract Chapter 6 focuses on the role—or lack thereof—of papal privileges in tenth-century West Saxon (Cerdicing) ‘Kingdom of English’. Why is our evidence for use documentary culture England so comparatively poor this period, when we know that strong Anglo-papal relations otherwise existed, and a great many were acquired across contemporary Europe? By surveying dearth English against corpus acquisitions from Ottonian Germany Italy, late Carolingian Capetian France, emerging Catalan polity, chapter argues ideas about authority developed new kingdom along lines quite different those ‘post-Carolingian’ polities. The discussion includes reassessments documents within milieu ‘Benedictine movement’, at Dunstan’s Canterbury, Æthelwold’s Winchester, Oswald’s Ramsey, Glastonbury abbey.
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