Monastic Tithes From their Origins to the Twelfth Century

Name: Monastic Tithes From their Origins to the Twelfth Century
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ISBN: 9780521047159

ISBN-10: 0521047153

ISBN-13: 9780521047159

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Authors: Giles Constable

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No tax in Europe can compare with tithes in its duration, the extent of its application and the economic burden it imposed. In this study Professor Constable considers the tithes paid to and by monks in the Middle Ages. In particular he examines why, by the twelfth century, most monks received tithes and many of them were freed from payment, in spite of earlier theory and practice by which monks, as distinct from the clergy, were usually forbidden to receive tithes and required to pay them. In the early Middle Ages monastic tithes were a matter not only of economics, but of doctrine, canon law and monastic theory. Their history lies in the borderland between theory and practice and…

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List price: $39.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/3/1964
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Giles Constable is Medieval History Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.




Tithes in the Early Middle Ages



The Christian theory of tithes



The early practice of tithing



Carolingian legislation on tithes



Monastic possession of tithes



From the seventh to the eleventh century



The policy of the reformed papacy



Monastic possession of tithes in the twelfth century



Opposition to monastic possession of tithes



The defence of monastic possession of tithes



The end of the opposition



Monastic Payment of tithes



Monastic payment of tithes before the twelfth century



The growth of monastic freedom from tithes in the first half of the twelfth century



The crisis of monastic freedom from tithes