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Freie Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2003. / Cont. bibl. (p. 307-325), name index and notes. Revised thesis.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1992. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-274).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [212]-235).

Four commissions considered cathedrals during the nineteenth century. The first two gave them their modern structure: a dean, a small number of stipendiary, residentiary, canons, a larger honorary body. But the principal achievement of these commissions was negative; their emphasis was on the removal of wealth. The second two sought to give new corporate and diocesan life to these ancient bodies. Their aspirations, however, never achieved parliamentary enactment. Thus in the early twentieth century there was will for the reform; the establishment of the Church Assembly presented more auspicious circumstances in which to attempt it. The thesis falls into two related parts. The first traces institutional change across the twentieth-century - change which can be measured by the statutory outcome of the proposals of the three commissions which sat during the century. It will be argued that all three were clearly products of their times, showing the influence of context: of social (and technological) change and of the mind-set of the Church: the first two, reflecting that Church, were conservative and respectful of inheritance and tradition. The last, in an age socially, politically, administratively, ecclesiastically, much changed, was radical. It showed less respect for tradition and a greater susceptibility to external factors: markedly to contemporary management theory. Constitutions regulate a life. The second part explores aspects of that life. All the aspects reviewed helped to form, and were in turn re-formed by, the Commissions and the consequent Measures. First among the subjects examined is the fundamental, defining, relationship, that with the bishop and the diocese. Other chapters discuss the force of external, social, change in shaping and moulding the work and witness of cathedrals, and their methods and standards of pastoral care. The ecumenical movement, though scarcely noticed by the first Commission, was already a factor in the work of a few cathedrals. The 1990s commission assumed, and its Measure provided for, ecumenical involvement. The first commission noted the fact of dissension within cathedrals and between them and their bishops; such troubles were the immediate cause of the last commission; the final chapter examines publicly prominent episodes of dissension. Throughout the century, in their witness the cathedrals responded, sometimes profoundly, to a context of change; their historic constitutions and the independence they conferred enabled the cathedrals to conduct a richly varied public ministry The, frequently decisive, force of personalities, especially of deans and provosts, in producing that ministry, is emphasised. The progress of the parish church cathedrals from, early in the century, scant institutional life to, by its end, parity with their ancient counterparts, is traced. The main text is supported by appendices, including two respectively providing biographical notes on those mentioned in the text, and definitions of specialist terms.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1987. / Includes abstract. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 507-544).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Freiburg (Breisgau), 1999.

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Mis en valeur dans de nombreuses études durant le XXe siècle, les liens entre l’Église et la mort sont étudiés ici dans le contexte des 22 diocèses provençaux des XIIe, XIIIe et XIVe siècles. Grâce à une documentation abondante et variée émanant essentiellement des chapitres cathédraux, il est possible d’envisager la mort comme un cadre aux relations entre les clercs des cathédrales et les sociétés urbaines. Perspective commune à tous, la mort permet aux clercs de construire des discours participant de l’encadrement chrétien des sociétés, exprimés de diverses manières, dans des modèles de bonne mort ou la liturgie funéraire. La mort est aussi l’occasion d’établir des relations spirituelles et matérielles avec une large communauté laïque et ecclésiastique, en particulier dans le cadre de la pratique des anniversaires. Elle est un événement propice à l’insertion des prélats, des chanoines et des clercs séculiers dans le paysage politique et économique des comtés de Provence et de Forcalquier. Elle est, enfin, une clé de lecture permettant à l’historien de comprendre comment s’organise l’Ecclesia provençale durant trois siècles marqués par d’importantes évolutions géopolitiques et économiques. Cette étude propose une lecture thanatologique de l’histoire des cathédrales provençales dans le but d’en élargir les perspectives et de poser un nouveau regard sur les clercs qui les desservent. / Relations between death and the medieval church have been explored by European historians since the beginning of the 20th century. They are here analysed within the 22 dioceses of « Provence » during the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. Using a large and varied documentation, essentially produced by cathedral chapters, we propose to study death as a framework for the relations between the cathedral clergy and urban medieval societies. As a prospect common to everyone, death could be used by clerics in order to build discourses promoting a tighter control of the Church over society, for instance through the liturgy of the Dead or the concept of the « Good Christian Death ». Especially through anniversaries, Death also provided them with an opportunity to establish spiritual and material relationships with an enlarged community of laymen and ecclesiastics and was therefore instrumental in involving bischops, canons and secular clerics into the political and economic life of the counties of Provence and Forcalquier. Finally, Death gives historians of the Middle Ages a unique insight into the life and organisation of the Provençale Ecclesia over three centuries of intense economic and political evolutions. This study aims to use thanatology in order to broaden our historical perspectives regarding Provençal cathedrals and clerics in the Middle-Ages.

Univ., Diss.--Freiburg, 2003.