This article uses letters of advice, outlining key principles of royal power, to explore how abbots and bishops in high medieval Europe sought to demonstrate compliance with widely shared norms about the role and nature of clerical counsel when interacting with kings. It will show that the type of the remonstrating cleric was deeply engrained in epistolary culture. While this expectation may not always reflect how dealings between prelates and rulers unfolded in practice, it nonetheless points to a pervasive framework of remonstration and admonition that was integral to high medieval European political and clerical culture.

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Clerical admonitio , Letters of Advice to Kings and Episcopal Self-Fashioning, c .1000-c .1200

本文使用建议书，概述王权的关键原则，探讨中世纪欧洲的住持和主教如何在与国王互动时遵守广泛共享的关于文书顾问的角色和性质的规范。这将表明，抗议神职人员的类型在书信文化中根深蒂固。虽然这种期望可能并不总是反映主教和统治者之间的交往在实践中是如何展开的，但它仍然指向一个普遍的抗议和告诫框架，这是中世纪欧洲政治和神职文化不可或缺的一部分。