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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 September 2012
      06 August 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139018050
      9780521193467
      9781107530836
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139018050
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 332 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 332 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, Religion, European Studies, Church History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (86)
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    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, Religion, European Studies, Church History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (86)
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    Focusing on the way bishops in the eleventh century used the ecclesiastical tithe - church taxes - to develop or re-order ties of loyalty and dependence within their dioceses, this book offers a new perspective on episcopacy in medieval Germany and Italy. Using three broad case studies from the dioceses of Mainz, Salzburg and Lucca in Tuscany, John Eldevik places the social dynamics of collecting the church tithe within current debates about religious reform, social change and the so-called 'feudal revolution' in the eleventh century, and analyses a key economic institution, the medieval tithe, as a social and political phenomenon. By examining episcopal churches and their possessions not in institutional terms, but as social networks which bishops were obliged to negotiate and construct over time using legal, historiographical and interpersonal means, this comparative study casts fresh light on the history of early medieval society.

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