LEADER 03812oam 22005292a 450 001 9910495864303321 005 20230829001356.0 010 $a0-585-16428-2 035 $a(CKB)111004366709686 035 $a(MH)003965460-5 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000210938 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12056722 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210938 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10292696 035 $a(PQKB)10407622 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366709686 100 $a19921016d1994 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA new world in a small place $echurch and religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188-1378 /$fRobert Brentano$b[electronic resource] 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (xxiii, 452 p. )$cill. ; 300 $a"A Centennial book"--P. 311 0 $a0-520-08076-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 1 $a"Robert Brentano has unearthed a cache of previously ignored documents that sheds light on the precise character of the church, religion, and society, and how they changed over a period of two centuries in a small diocese in medieval Italy." "The focal point of the book is the diocese of Rieti in central Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Here, in the 1960's, Brentano began his task of combing the essentially unused thirteenth-century archives - wills, litigation records, fiscal accounts - stored in a tower above the sacristy of the cathedral. What he discovered there provided new insight into the role of religion and the church in people's daily lives and a new morphology of "diocese."" "Emphasizing the importance of contingence, Brentano's approach to interpreting local history is unusual and stimulating. His method of presenting the many varieties of physical evidence allows the multiple perspectives of cleric, lay person, resident, and researcher to emerge. The documents speak for themselves, and the reader is made physically aware of the place and time and is able to hear the voices of the people of that place and time. Rather than a general revisionist thesis, this is an exercise aimed at learning a new way of looking at history though physical evidence, to see how a variety of things fit together and illuminate one another." "Brentano treats religion and society not as separate entities, or even as intricately interlocked, but as fully absorbed in each other. In this time and in this place, he shows, the spiritual and the corporal, the secular and the ecclesiastical, were united at various levels." 330 8 $a"The final episode in Brentano's informal trilogy on religion and society in medieval Europe, A New World in a Small Place is characteristic of his work - imaginative, thorough, and especially telling in what it reveals about the process of historical inquiry. It has much to offer to historians, both general and specialized, to anyone interested in experiments in historical writing and the problems of writing local history, and to scholars and students concerned with the connection between literature and history."--Jacket. 517 $aNew world in a small place 517 $aA new world in a small place 606 $aChurch history$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aChurch history$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 607 $aRieti Region (Italy)$xChurch history 615 0$aChurch history 615 0$aChurch history 676 $a282/.45624/09022 700 $aBrentano$b Robert$f1926-$0167136 701 $aGardner$b Julian$0241617 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495864303321 996 $aA new world in a small place$92862192 997 $aUNINA