Politics, Holiness, and Property in Angers, 1080-1130

Bibliographic Data

ID8940404
AuthorsBelle Stoddard Tuten
Year2001
Volume24
Issue4
Pages601-619
Publication date2001-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrench Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00161071-24-4-601
OpenAlexW1986619028
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

In the late eleventh century the monasteries of Saint-Nicolas and Saint-Aubin d’Angers entered a long and bitter dispute over the right to pasture hogs and gather firewood in the forest of Echats. In their parallel accounts of the disputes, the scribes of the two monasteries deliberately manipulated the facts to promote their own claims. Although the forest and its attendant rights were not very valuable, the monasteries used the case as one of multiple strategies for promoting themselves in the eyes of the secular community. In showing the intersection between religious, political, and material goals, the article suggests that monastic disputes should not be understood outside of their religious and economic milieux

Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Medieval and Early Modern Justice · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy

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