Table of Contents
Abbreviations ix
1 Introduction Carine van Rhijn Steffen Patzold 1
2 Practices of property and the salvation of one's soul: Priests as men in the middle in the Wissembourg material Miriam Czock 11
3 Local priests in early medieval Alamannia: The charter evidence Bernhard Zeller 32
4 Presbyter in parochia sua: Local priests and their churches in early medieval Bavaria Thomas Kohl 50
5 Ideal and reality: Carolingian priests in northern Francia Charles Mériaux 78
6 Local priests in early medieval rural Tuscany Marco Stoffella 98
7 Local priests in northern Iberia Wendy Davies 125
8 Looking for local priests in Anglo-Saxon England Francesca Tinti 145
9 Priests and books in the Merovingian period Yitzhak Hen 162
10 Manuscripts for local priests and the Carolingian reforms Carine van Rhijn 177
11 Pater noster: Priests and the religious instruction of the laity in the Carolingian populus Christiaus Steffen Patzold 199
12 Early medieval priests: Some further thoughts Rob Meens 222
Bibliography 229
Index 241