Article
French
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Abstract
The Council of Poitiers in 1075 has long been a mysterious footnote in the history of the early papacy of Gregory VII, remembered primarily because Berengar de Tours was assaulted by the participants for his heretical views on the Eucharist and was forced to make an orthodox profession of faith that included one of the first articulations of the doctrine of transubstantiation. A new text, recently associated with the council, offers an altogether different perspective on the events of 1074-1075 in Poitiers and of their implications for several important questions: for the history of religious reform under Gregory VII; of the influence of Gregory’s legates, especially of Amatus of Oloron; of political and religious power in Poitou and Aquitaine; and of the relationship of religious reform to monumental art in eleventh-century France.