Educating the Local Clergy,<i>c</i>.900–<i>c</i>.1150
Sarah Hamilton
Scholars interested in those medieval clergy charged with the delivery of pastoral care have highlighted flourishing reforming movements ninth and thirteenth centuries. Thus period between fall Carolingian empire beginnings so-called revolution is generally viewed as one episcopal neglect. Focusing on case studies drawn from heartlands north-east Frankia Lotharingia, well what had been more peripheral regions northern Italy southern England, this article offers a revised interpretation education local post-Carolingian world. Exploring ways which higher churchmen sought to innovate texts they inherited their predecessors, it demonstrates how paid considerable attention preparation ordination suitable candidates, instruction monitoring through attendance at diocesan synods visitations, provision support care.
Studies in Church History|Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter)