The Transformation of a Religious Landscape: Medieval by Valerie Ramseyer

The Transformation of a non secular Landscape paints an in depth photograph of the sheer number of early medieval Christian perform and association, in addition to the varied modes during which church reform manifested itself within the 11th and 12th centuries. From the wealthy files of the abbey of the Holy Trinity of Cava, Valerie Ramseyer reconstructed the advanced spiritual heritage of southern Italy. No unmarried non secular or political determine claimed authority within the quarter ahead of the 11th century, and pastoral care was once supplied via a wide selection of small spiritual homes. the road among the secular and the common clergy used to be now not good suggested, nor was once the boundary among the clergy and the laity or among jap and western non secular practices.

within the moment half the 11th century, despite the fact that, the archbishop of Salerno and the strong abbey of Cava acted to remodel the placement. Centralized and hierarchical ecclesiastical buildings took form, and an attempt was once made to standardize non secular practices alongside the traces espoused through reform popes reminiscent of Leo IX and Gregory VII. but prelates in southern Italy didn't settle for all facets of the reform application emanating from facilities comparable to Rome and Cluny, and the region's spiritual lifestyles persisted to vary in lots of respects from that during Francia: clergymen persevered to marry and feature little ones, laypeople to stumbled on and administer church buildings, and Greek clerics and non secular practices to coexist with these sanctioned via Rome.