Title: A Sacred City Consecrating Churches And Reforming Society In Eleventhcentury Italy
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.
Subjects: Investiture, Church history, Italy, church history, Church dedication, History, Liturgy