The White Robe of Churches of the 11th Century
Subtitle: Pages from the Story of Gloucester Cathedral
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781419158650
Subjects: Christian Church - History; General; Religion-General; Non-Classifiable; Religion - Church History; Novelty
First sentence: A MONK of the great Benedictine Abbey of Cluny, one Raoul Glaber, in a History of his own Time, finished about A.D. 1047, writing of the year 1003, tells us how everywhere, especially in Italy and in Gaul, men began to restore and to renew churches, how all Christian peoples seemed to contend with each other which should raise the most superb houses of God.