Vor kurzem erschien das Buch „Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050” von Alice Hicklin (King's College London), Steffen Patzold (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen), Bastiaan Waagmeester (Freie Universität Berlin) und Charles West (University of Edinburgh). Die Studie ist das Ergebnis eines britisch-deutschen Forschungsprojekts, das neue Einblicke in die Rolle lokaler Priester in der Übergangszeit zwischen der karolingischen und der gregorianischen Reform bietet. Das Buch wurde bei Cambridge University Press als Open Access veröffentlicht. 

Abstrakt:

The local priest was the most ubiquitous embodiment of the Church for many people in medieval Christian Europe. By centring this key figure in post-Carolingian Europe, this book provides a fresh perspective on the transition between two focuses of historiographical attention, the Carolingian reform and the Gregorian reform. This pivot away from Church elites such as popes, bishops and abbots, and the institutional structures of dioceses and parishes, sheds light on new lines of continuity and moments of transformation, examining the resources and kinship ties of local priests and assessing their relationship with the bishop at both the collective and the individual level. It draws on a variety of methodologies and forms of evidence, ranging from the detailed study of specific manuscripts to wide-ranging overviews of liturgical and documentary evidence.