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The transformation of a religious landscape : medieval southern Italy, 850-1150 / / Valerie Ramseyer



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Autore: Ramseyer Valerie Visualizza persona
Titolo: The transformation of a religious landscape : medieval southern Italy, 850-1150 / / Valerie Ramseyer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2006
©2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina: 274.5/7403
Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Medieval
Soggetto geografico: Salerno (Italy : Province) Church history
Italy, Southern History 535-1268
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Genealogies -- Abbreviations -- The Archives of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity of Cava -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Christianity in the Lombard Era (c. 849-1077) -- Chapter 1. Society and Government before the Normans -- Chapter 2. Religious Authority and Ecclesiastical Organization before Centralization -- Chapter 3. Religious Houses and the Clergy before Reform -- Part II. Reorganization and Reform in the Norman Period (c. 1050-1130) -- Chapter 4. The New Archbishopric of Salerno -- Chapter 5. The Construction of a Monastic Lordship: The Abbey of the Holy Trinity of Cava -- Epilogue: Changes and Continuities -- Works Cited -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The Transformation of a Religious Landscape paints a detailed picture of the sheer variety of early medieval Christian practice and organization, as well as the diverse modes in which church reform manifested itself in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. From the rich archives of the abbey of the Holy Trinity of Cava, Valerie Ramseyer reconstructed the complex religious history of southern Italy. No single religious or political figure claimed authority in the region before the eleventh century, and pastoral care was provided by a wide variety of small religious houses. The line between the secular and the regular clergy was not well pronounced, nor was the boundary between the clergy and the laity or between eastern and western religious practices. In the second half of the eleventh century, however, the archbishop of Salerno and the powerful abbey of Cava acted to transform the situation. Centralized and hierarchical ecclesiastical structures took shape, and an effort was made to standardize religious practices along the lines espoused by reform popes such as Leo IX and Gregory VII. Yet prelates in southern Italy did not accept all aspects of the reform program emanating from centers such as Rome and Cluny, and the region's religious life continued to differ in many respects from that in Francia: priests continued to marry and have children, laypeople to found and administer churches, and Greek clerics and religious practices to coexist with those sanctioned by Rome.
Titolo autorizzato: The transformation of a religious landscape  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5017-0227-0
1-5017-0228-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910460659003321
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Serie: Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.