Priests and books in the Merovingian period

Yitzhak Hen

doi:10.1515/9783110444483-011

Priests and books in the Merovingian period

Yitzhak Hen

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This chapter reviews the evidence for the possession of specific types of books, such as sacramentaries, homiliaries, canon law texts and hagiography, used by priests in Merovingian Gaul. After developing some criteria for identifying books that might have been used by priests, the author examines specific manuscripts that he believes were produced for Merovingian priests, and probably were owned by them. These manuscripts include the so-called Bobbio Missal, early sermon collections, as well as the oldest manuscript evidence of Fredegar's chronicle.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Men in the Middle
Subtitle of host publication	Local Priests in Early Medieval Europe
Publisher	de Gruyter
Pages	162-176
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9783110444483
ISBN (Print)	9783110436204
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110444483-011
State	Published - 24 May 2016

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