The Medieval Clergy, 800-1250

“This intelligently compiled and edited collection of sources in translation on the secular clergy in the Middle Ages provides selections that facilitate analyses of individual places and people across key centuries for the development of European society. The source groupings come classroom-ready with questions for students to consider as they read and create opportunities for writing assignments that allow comparisons across time as well as explorations of specific issues. This sourcebook will be a great boon to all those teaching and studying the history of western Christianity in the European Middle Ages.” – Maureen C. Miller, University of California Berkeley

John S. Ott is Professor of History at Portland State University, and holds degrees from the University of Puget Sound, Stanford University, and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. He is the author of Bishops, Authority and Community in Northwestern Europe, c.1050-1150 (2015). His publications center on ecclesiastical history and the history of canon law, particularly for northern France.

Anna Trumbore Jones is Professor of History at Lake Forest College, and was educated at the University of Chicago, University College London, and Columbia University. She is the author of Noble Lord, Good Shepherd: Episcopal Power and Piety in Aquitaine, 877-1050 (2009), and numerous essays about secular clergy and religious life in tenth- and eleventh-century southwestern France.