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Cheney concludes:
One regretfully concludes that this book promises much more than it
performs.
On both the political history of the Investitures dispute and on its
theoretical
background, it has useful and penetrating remarks; but it is not
accurate enough,
in things great or small,.to be trustworthy. Some of the
bibliographical references
are deplorable: "Scriptores vol. x" for Twysden's Scriptores decem and
"Burke's
Complete Peerage" for G.E.C. are perhaps the worst. Proofreading has
been perfunctory,
and there is a disgraceful number of mistakes in the Latin quotations
of the footnotes.
--
George FERZOCO
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On 2 Oct 2011, at 23:41, John Briggs wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
> I am cross-posting this to MEDIEV-L and M-R, as it seems relevant to
> both.
>
> Back in June, when we were discussing "Inventing the Middle Ages",
> Richard Kay wrote:
> >
> > His career as a serious scholar was ended in 1959 by a devastating
> > review of his book *Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture in
> England* > by Christopher Cheney (Speculum 34:653).
>
> Needless to say, I can't find a copy of the review online, and don't
> have access to a library that might hold it. But I have managed to
> get hold of a copy of "Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture in
> England", and it seems to me to hold up rather well. Why should
> Cheney's review have had such an effect? Is the book really that
> bad, and in what way?
>
> I would have thought that it was a laudable attempt to link events
> in England with the wider picture of the Gregorian Reforms. There
> are quibbles, inevitably (he takes the traditional view that the
> Third recension of the English Coronation Ordo reflects Anselm's
> theology, whereas I think it must have been compiled by Lanfranc; he
> cites what appears to be a non-existent book by Walter Frere in his
> bibliography.)
>
> But it seems to me to be rather an impressive debut, being a lightly
> revised version of his PhD thesis. He announced his intention of
> following it up with studies of Lanfranc and Paschal II - which, of
> course, never happened. What did we lose?
> --
> John Briggs
>
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