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The Norman Anonymous (sometimes Anonymous of Rouen or Anonymous of York) is the name given to the author of a collection of treatises, the ''Tractatus Eboracenses'', dealing with the relationship between kings and the
A digital edition of the text, including facsimiles
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The Norman Anonymous (sometimes Anonymous of Rouen or Anonymous of York) is the name given to the author of a collection of treatises, the ''Tractatus Eboracenses'', dealing with the relationship between kings and the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
, written c. 1100.G. Williams, ''The Norman Anonymous of 1100 AD: Towards the Identification and Evaluation of the so-called Anonymous of York'', Harvard Theological Studies, xvii (1951). The author, whose identity remains a mystery, offered some of the most strongly worded defences of royal authority and even superiority to the Catholic Church ever uttered in the medieval West. Surviving in just a single manuscript, the text is the only contribution made by the Anglo-Norman Anglo-Norman may refer to:
*Anglo-Normans, the medieval ruling class in England following the Norman conquest of 1066
* Anglo-Norman language
**Anglo-Norman literature
* Anglo-Norman England, or Norman England, the period in English history from 10 ...
realm to the Investiture Controversy
The Investiture Controversy, also called Investiture Contest (German: ''Investiturstreit''; ), was a conflict between the Church and the state in medieval Europe over the ability to choose and install bishops (investiture) and abbots of monast ...
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See also
*Dominium mundi
'' Dominium mundi '' is an idea of universal dominion developed in the Middle Ages. Inspired by the memory of the Roman Empire, ''dominium mundi'' implied the recognition of one supreme authority, which generated a prolonged political and spiritua ...
*A Dispute Between a Priest and a Knight ''Disputatio inter clericum et militem'' (''A Dispute Between a Priest and a Knight'') is a dialogue, written in France between 1296 and 1303. Although anonymous, it could have been written by John of Paris, master of the University of Paris. The tr ...
*Proverbia Grecorum
The ''Proverbia Grecorum'' (sometimes ''Parabolae Gregorum'', both meaning "proverbs of the Greeks") is an anonymous Latin collection of proverbs compiled in the seventh or eighth century AD in the British Isles, probably in Ireland. Despite the n ...
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Further reading
*The Norman Anonymous is available in a facsimile edition, ''Der Codex 415 des Corpus Christi College Cambridge : Facs.-Ausg. d. Textüberlieferung d. Normannischen Anonymus'' ed. Karl Pellens (1977) *Sections are available in English translation in ''English Historical Documents'' II, ed. Douglas, pp. 675–8. *George Huntston Williams, ''The Norman Anonymous of 1100 AD: Towards the Identification and Evaluation of the so-called Anonymous of York'', Harvard Theological Studies, xvii (1951) *K. Pellens, 'The tracts of the Norman Anonymous: Corpus Christi College Cambridge Ms. 415',. ''Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society'' (1965)External links
* (''Tractatus Eboracensis'' online)A digital edition of the text, including facsimiles
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