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The Creation of a Religious Centre: Christianisation in the Diocese of Liège in the Carolingian Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2003

SATOSHI TADA
SATOSHI TADA
Affiliation:
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Chukyo University, Tokodachi 101, Kaizu-sho, Toyota City, Airchi Pref., Japan 470-0393; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The bishops of Liège became concerned with Christianisation throughout the whole diocese in the Carolingian period. This study examines the concrete measures that they took. The field chosen is the Ardennes region in the south of the diocese, where they reorganised the abbey of St-Hubert as a religious centre. The bishops reformed the community and offered it economic support. They also encouraged the cult of St Hubert and introduced the new custom of annual processions. This approach throws light on the pastoral situation in a way that their episcopal capitularies cannot.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 209 - 227
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This study is a translated and largely rewritten version of my ‘Edification of the people in the diocese of Liège during the first half of the ninth century’, Shigaku=Zasshi (in Japanese) cv (1996), 937–60, and appears here by kind permission of Shigakukai, Tokyo. I am much indebted to Professor Janet L. Nelson for her kind revision of my translation. I also thank the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, whose grant-in-aid for JSPS Fellows supports this study.