The chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny : reform and the investiture contest in the late eleventh century /

Healy, Patrick.

The chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny : reform and the investiture contest in the late eleventh century / Patrick Healy. - Aldershot, England : Ashgate, c2006. - viii, 264 p. : map; 24 cm. - Church, faith, and culture in the Medieval West. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index.

The Abbey of St-Vanne, Verdun, from its foundation until 1085 -- The life and career of Hugh of Flavigny -- The manuscript of the Chronicon and its transmission -- Sources of the Chronicon -- Kingship and tyranny in the Chronicon -- Lay investiture and simony : auctoritas and consuetudo -- Reforming attitudes to ecclesiastical promotion -- Conclusion : the Chronicon as polemic.

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Hugh, of Flavigny, b. ca. 1064.


Investiture.
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.


France--Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

BX1198 / .H43 2006

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