Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078-1079
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: March 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780231126847
Subjects: Blasphemy, heresy, apostasy; Christianity; History of religion; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Religion; Albericus; Berengar; Religion / Christianity; Christian Rituals & Practice - General; 1020-1105.; Adversus Beregarium Diaconum de corpore et sanguine Domini; Alberic,; Berengar,; History; Lord's Supper; Middle Ages, 600-1500; ca. 1000-1088; of Monte Cassino,; of Tours,
First sentence: The Eucharistic Controversy of the eleventh century is of importance not just for the ideas at stake, crucial as they were for the central rite in Christian religious practice, but as a key episode in the process by which an intellectual and scholarly community took shape.