West, C. (2022) The simony crisis of the eleventh century and the ‘Letter of Guido’. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 73 (2). pp. 229-253. ISSN 0022-0469
Abstract
The Epistola Widonis, or ‘Letter of Guido’, is a key source for the simony debates of the eleventh century, since it is usually considered the first major text to cast doubt on the validity of simoniacal ordinations. After examining the grounds for the letter's conventional dating to c. 1031 and attribution to Guido of Arezzo, this article makes the case for instead locating the letter's origins in the 1060s, and explores the implications of a re-dating for the dynamics of the eleventh-century ‘moral panic’ about simony.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Cambridge University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Monumenta Germaniae Historica; Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte; Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Kanonistische Abteilung |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2021 11:06 |
Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2022 10:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0022046921000063 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:169771 |
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