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Reform in the Localities: The Council of Valence (May 1079)

Reform in the Localities: The Council of Valence (May 1079) KRISTON R. RENNIE / TORONTO Council historians are continually faced with a disparate historiography when trying to piece together the course of conciliar events. Nowhere is this more apparent than for the last quarter of the eleventh century, a pe­ riod where some councils escape our notice altogether. Council collec­ tions like that compiled by the eighteenth-century scholar J ohannes Dominicus Mansi (printed in Florence between 1759-1798), have pro­ duced errors of notation that (at times) omit a11 traces of original evi­ den ce; this is particularly disconcerting for the eleventh century when try­ ing to identify the sources from which historians were drawing their mate­ rial. There are certainly occasions where letters, acta, or charters can be accurately traced to a particular cartulary or chronicle, but for the major­ ity of collections - including the eminent work of the Jesuit scholars Phi­ lippe Labbe, Gabriel Cossart (1671-72), and Etienne Baluze (1682-83) 1 - the original documentation has not always survived in its complete form. That is to say that the origins of conciliar evidence cannot always be accurately determined. It therefore be comes impossible in many cases to verify the authenticity of councils without sufficient manuscript evidence, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum Brill

Reform in the Localities: The Council of Valence (May 1079)

Rennie, Kriston R.
Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum , Volume 37 (1): 13 – Jun 20, 2005
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KRISTON R. RENNIE / TORONTO Council historians are continually faced with a disparate historiography when trying to piece together the course of conciliar events. Nowhere is this more apparent than for the last quarter of the eleventh century, a pe­ riod where some councils escape our notice altogether. Council collec­ tions like that compiled by the eighteenth-century scholar J ohannes Dominicus Mansi (printed in Florence between 1759-1798), have pro­ duced errors of notation that (at times) omit a11 traces of original evi­ den ce; this is particularly disconcerting for the eleventh century when try­ ing to identify the sources from which historians were drawing their mate­ rial. There are certainly occasions where letters, acta, or charters can be accurately traced to a particular cartulary or chronicle, but for the major­ ity of collections - including the eminent work of the Jesuit scholars Phi­ lippe Labbe, Gabriel Cossart (1671-72), and Etienne Baluze (1682-83) 1 - the original documentation has not always survived in its complete form. That is to say that the origins of conciliar evidence cannot always be accurately determined. It therefore be comes impossible in many cases to verify the authenticity of councils without sufficient manuscript evidence, and

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