Publisher's Synopsis
The gradual establishment of the papal claim to leadership in the early and high Middle Ages has so far been examined primarily with a view to the periphery of Latin Europe as a process-related development based largely on impulses from the regions. The study, on the other hand, focuses on a centrally located monastic landscape by asking about the background, motives and consequences of the papal relationships of the religious communities in the three Lorraine dioceses of Metz, Toul and Verdun. The focus is on the functional assignments that these communities brought to the papacy, but also on the various forms of their interactions with the Roman bishops and their deputies, as well as on the scope of these interactions in their immediate and longer-term effects.
