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Adalbert, 1043–72, German churchman, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, a diocese that included Scandinavia. He was a favorite of Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, who appointed Adalbert to the archbishopric in order to break the power of the dukes of N Europe. He was a guardian of Henry's son and successor, Henry IV, but his relentless ambition to strengthen the church and the monarchy at the expense of the nobles (chiefly by annexing their lands) defeated itself. The nobles allied themselves with the abbots, who hated him for his efforts to subordinate the abbeys, and with the bishops, who feared his increasing ecclesiastical power. They accomplished his dismissal in 1066, but Henry IV recalled him in 1069. One of the ablest statesmen of his time, Adalbert helped consolidate both his ecclesiastical domain and the imperial authority.
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Adalbert remained Housman's friend until his death in 1892,
the year Housman was elected to the Chair of Latin at University
College, London, the reward for a decade of articles in classical
journals, written in evening hours after his work at the Patent Office. This section begins with
Margaret Bent's virtuosic study of motets for popes from John XXII
to Eugene IV, continuing with John Nadas/Giuliano di Bacco's work
on polyphony during the great schism, Alejandro Planchart on early
fifteenth-century papal music, Adalbert Roth on late fifteenth-century
music, and Jeffrey Dean and Mitchell Brauner studying the development of
musical traditions and a Roman canon.
Schreider went on an excursion to the town of Nagybirzony, where he saw
the old Roman church and met the priest, Father Adalbert Szappanyos, a
well-known scholar of art who had restored the church. |
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