Papers by John S . Ott
L'Eveque conteste. Les resistances a l'autorite episcopale des Pays-Bas a l'Italie du Nord, 2023
Zeitschrift der Savigny Stiftung fuer Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistiche Abteilung, 2022
This paper explores a little-known florilegium of 36 canons found in Reims, Bibliothèque municipa... more This paper explores a little-known florilegium of 36 canons found in Reims, Bibliothèque municipale Ms. 15. The canons form one part of a dossier against simoniac prelates, assembled in 1078-1079 by reform-minded clergy in Reims to bring down the archbishop, Manasses I (ca. 1069-1080). Taken nearly whole-cloth from the Tuscan Collectio Barberiniana, the canons of Reims 15 shed light on the transmission of legal material from northern Italy to northern France, and offer precious insight into how this material was assembled for use. Moreover, substantial elements of the florilegium were incorporated into the eleventh-century legal collection known as Sinemuriensis. Using the canonical material of Reims 15, this paper offers a new hypothesis concerning the various recensions of Sinemuriensis and their dating, and concludes with an edition of the canons from the Reims florilegium.
L'eveque conteste. Les resistances a l'autorite episcopale des Pays-Bas a l'Italie du Nord, 2023
The Catholic Historical Review, 2012
Patterns of Episcopal Power: Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe/ Strukturen bis... more Patterns of Episcopal Power: Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe/ Strukturen bischoflicher Herrschaftsgewalt im westlichen Europa des 10. und 11. Jahrhunderts. Edited by Ludger Korntgen and Dominik Wasenhoven. [Prinz-Albert-Forschungen/Prince Albert Research Publications, Vol. 6.] (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 201 1 . Pp. 226. $1 35.00. ISBN 978-3-11-026202-5.)This collection of essays opens with a now classic piece by Timothy Reuter, warmly canonized by the editors as a "patron saint of research on bishops, power and kingship in the tenth and eleventh centuries" (p. 12). Reuter published "Ein Europa der Bischofe: Das Zeitalter Burchards von Worms" shortly before his untimely death in 2002, and it has become a standard point of reference for scholars of medieval ecclesiastical and political history in the central Middle Ages. Ludger Korntgen and Dominik Wasenhoven have made available Reuter's own English translation of his essay (pp. 17-38), updating it with additional references to recent scholarship. Anglophone readers will surely welcome their effort.Korntgen andWasenhoven's inclusion of ? Europe of Bishops" reminds us how effortlessly Reuter's work bridged England and the Continent. Reuter's spirit infuses this volume in another respect. Influenced by Benedict Anderson, several of Reuter's late essays urged scholars to think of medieval dioceses as "imagined communities," polities having both an institutional and, still more important, a conceptual existence that centered on the bishop's person and rituals connected with the episcopal office. Reuter argued that bishops across Europe's continental core shared by the year 1000 a standard range of experiences; they were rather like chess pieces possessing similar powers but operating independently of one another and of the other pieces on the board.The editors' stated intention (p. 13) is to "compare political situations, actions, communications, individual protagonists, specific resources, rules of behavior and so on in order to get a better understanding of the practice and the construction of [episcopal] power" in the Anglo-Saxon and Ottoman kingdoms. Essays by Ernst-Dieter Hehl, Dominik Wasenhoven, and Catherine Cubitt do this by examining bishops' actions during monarchic succession crises- namely, that of 1035-42 in England, and those of 983/84, 1002, and 1024 in the Ottonian-Salian reichs. A fourth essay, by Pauline Stafford, explores the interventions of the royal women Emma and TElfgifu following the death of Cnut in 1035. These essays read best as pairs. Hehl's "Bedrangte und belohnte Bischofe. Recht und Politik als Parameter bischoflichen Handelns bei Willigis von Mainz und anderen" (pp. 63-87), perhaps the most detailed study here, argues persuasively that succession crises, rather than providing opportunities for episcopal agency, entailed a great amount of risk that could just as easily limit bishops' options for action. …
New Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research: Challenging the Master Narrative, 2019
Edited books by John S . Ott
by Radosław Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski, John S . Ott, Geneviève Bührer -Thierry, Michael Edward Moore, Chris Dennis, Craig M Nakashian, Pablo Dorronzoro Ramírez, Robert Houghton, Monika Michalska, Lawrence Duggan, and Ivan Majnarić 'Between Sword and Prayer' brings together diverse studies on the involvement of medieval Europea... more 'Between Sword and Prayer' brings together diverse studies on the involvement of medieval European clergy in warfare and military activities, spanning a broad geographical range and multiple interpretive perspectives, including legal, literary, historical, and hagiographical approaches.
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