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In early medieval Tuscany, local priests, baptismal churches and their rectors were part of a complex system in which bishops played a central role. Local priests' education, their social and economic role within local communities, their relationships with their kin group and their involvement in the running of ecclesiastical institutions, especially of proprietary ones, are some of the aspects that emerge through this chapter, which mostly focuses attention on the period between 750 and 850.

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The study of medieval Europe is being transformed as old orthodoxies are challenged, new methods embraced and fresh fields of enquiry opened up. The adoption of interdisciplinary perspectives and the challenge of economic, social and cultural theory are forcing medievalists to ask new questions and to see familiar topics in a fresh light. The aim of this series is to combine the scholarship traditionally associated with medieval studies with an awareness of more recent issues and approaches in a form accessible to the non-specialist reader.

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