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

Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006 ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 222 pages) : maps, genealogical tables Series Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past. Contents Part 1. Christianity in the Lombard era (c. 849-1077) -- Ch. 1. Society and government before the Normans -- Ch. 2. Religious authority and ecclesiastical organization before centralization -- Ch. 3. Religious houses and the clergy before reform -- part 2. Reorganization and reform in the Norman period (c. 1050-1130) -- Ch. 4. The new archbishop of Salerno -- Ch. 5. The construction of a monastic lordship : the abbey of the Holy Trinity of Cava -- Epilogue : changes and continuities Summary "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."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-213) and index Notes Print version record Subject Catholic Church -- Italy -- Salerno (Province) -- History Abbazia della Trinità della Cava (Cava de' Tirreni, Italy) -- History SUBJECT Abbazia della Trinità della Cava (Cava de' Tirreni, Italy) fast Catholic Church fast Subject RELIGION -- Christianity -- History. Kunst Religion Gregoriaanse reformatie. Landinrichting. Katholische Kirche. SUBJECT Salerno (Italy : Province) -- Church history Italy, Southern -- History -- 535-1268. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069039 Subject Italy -- Salerno (Province) Southern Italy Fürstentum Salerno Italien -- Süd Salerno -- Region Zuid-Italië. Italien -- kyrkohistoria -- medeltiden. Genre/Form Church history History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501702280 1501702289

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