A Sacred City Consecrating Churches And Reforming Society In Eleventhcentury Italy
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780719080265
Description: The eleventh-century reform movement was centred on a ritual: the investment of bishops with the signs of their sacred and secular authority. This book provides an examination of consecration, placing Gregorian reform and investiture conflict back into their original liturgical framework.