The chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny : reform and the investiture contest in the late eleventh century /
Healy, Patrick.
Aldershot : Ashgate,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index.
The Abbey of St-Vanne, Verdun, from its foundation until 1085 -- The life and career of Hugh of Flavigny -- The manuscript of the Chronicon and its transmission -- Sources of the Chronicon -- Kingship and tyranny in the Chronicon -- Lay investiture and simony : auctoritas and consuetudo -- Reforming attitudes to ecclesiastical promotion -- Conclusion : the Chronicon as polemic.
Hugh, of Flavigny, approximately 1064-
Investiture.
Church history