Secular canons in Medieval Europe: Diversity under Common Canon Law

Published by De Gruyter Akademie Forschung 2023

Secular canons in Medieval Europe

Diversity under Common Canon Law

Edited by: Sigrun Høgetveit Berg and Arnold Otto

Volume 14 in the series Studien zur Germania Sacra. Neue Folge

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111027210

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While both regular canons and monasticism with its development into different orders have reached a roughly even level of coverage in research, the history of secular canons is a field which has hitherto been far less in focus of historian scholarship. This might be due to the fact that they did not form orders or congregations offering a systematic approach to their institutions. Hence the pieces of research carried out so far mostly deal with a single cathedral or collegiate chapter and do not expand on the phenomenon in general. Likewise, the present publication may not give a comprehensive survey but yet takes a comparative approach by regarding the establishment of secular canons in a European longitudinal section from the Polar Circle to Southern Italy. In this course, both cathedral and collegiate chapters in Scandinavian, German, Polish and Italian territories and the respective career paths canons took into them will be considered. In this course, the essays take only some brief recourses to the early middle ages, when canons maintained a cloistered vita communis, but rather turn their view to those centuries in the high and later middle ages up to reformation times, when the chapters reached their full implementation.

The essays collected in this volume base on a session series held at the International Medieval Congress 2018 in Leeds. The contributors are renowned historians in this field: Antonio Antonetti (Caserta), Anna Minara Ciardi (Stockholm), Emanuele Curzel (Trento), Sigrun Høgetveit Berg (Tromsø), Jochen Johrendt (Wuppertal), Anna Kowalska-Pietrzak (Łódź), Arnold Otto (Nürnberg), Kirsi Salonen (Turku), Jörg Wunschhofer (Beckum).

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Sigrun Høgetveit Berg, University of Tromsø; Arnold Otto, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Reviews

"Insgesamt gelingt es den AutorInnen, durch detailreiche Studien einzelner Domkapitel und Kollegiatstifte die bisherige Forschungslandschaft zu Kanonikern um zahlreiche Aspekte zu ergänzen und zu erweitern. So steht nicht mehr nur die Verfassungsgeschichte der jeweiligen Institutionen im Vordergrund, sondern die VerfasserInnen rücken andere Ansätze wie die Prosopographie sowie die Erforschung von Karrieren, Ökonomie, Besetzungsstrategien und Netzwerke in den Fokus ihrer Untersuchungen. Zu den größten Stärken des Sammelbandes gehört neben der Vielfalt der Ansätze vor allem der europäische Rahmen, der nicht nur die Diversität der Institutionen verdeutlicht, sondern erste Anhaltspunkte für vergleichende und systematisierende Arbeiten bietet." Markus Kranz in: H-Soz-Kult, 25.10.2023, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-135715 (03.11.2023)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Secular canons in the Middle Ages – An Approach to a rarely known species Arnold Otto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Trade and Transaction – How to become a Canon and finance a Chapter in Norway in the 15th and 16th Centuries Sigrun Høgetveit Berg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
On Cathedral Chapters, Canons, and Careers in Denmark, c. 1070–1225 Anna Minara Ciardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
To Be a Canon – Or Not To Be? Papal Provisions to the Medieval Cathedral Chapter of Turku Kirsi Salonen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Getting a Prebend in the Cathedral Chapter of Paderborn in the 15^th and 16^th Century Jörg Wunschhofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Career Paths of the Collegiate Church Chapters’ Members within the Archdiocese of Gniezno in the Middle Ages Anna Kowalska-Pietrzak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Political Balances and Personal Ambitions. The Cathedral Chapter of Trento in the 14th and 15th Century Emanuele Curzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
The Chapter of St Peter in Rome: A Noble Institution? Jochen Johrendt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Cathedral chapters and canonical careers in the angevin southern Italy Antonio Antonetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Akademie Forschung
Audience: Historians of the Middle Ages, Church historians, regional historians
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 176
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
Keywords: High and Late Middle Ages; history of church; secular canons

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