Councils and Clerical Culture in the Medieval West

Download or read book Councils and Clerical Culture in the Medieval West written by Richard Kay and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The starting point for the majority of the articles collected here is the study of church councils and their procedures, with a focus on 13th-century France. The author's concern has been to remedy some of the inadequacies of the existing conciliar corpus and its documentation; one group of studies also describes a number of liturgical manuscripts that contain the ceremonials employed at these councils. Others reflect a broader interest in clerical and legal culture, centering around Dante and his intended readership. Finally, several studies are devoted to particular historiographical questions arising from this work, notably Franco-papal relations, the origins of French clerical taxation, and the conflict between Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair.