Local Priests and their Siblings c. 900–c. 1100
Alice Hicklin
Abstract Priests’ relationships with their brothers and sisters are richly evidenced in tenth- eleventh-century documentary sources across the Latin West. But looming shadow of ‘Gregorian Reform’ has focused historians’ attentions on clerical marriage vertical familial ( fathers sons, or uncles nephews ). This article redresses balance, arguing that sibling have been underestimated importance to lived experience local priests, families communities tenth eleventh centuries post-Carolingian western Francia. It examines how priests managed estates, co-operated pool resources, developed inheritance strategies particular emphasis such records may reflect both practice ground concerns scribes, draftsmen archivists who recorded, copied edited them.
Frühmittelalterliche Studien