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In this provocative account, Maureen Miller challenges traditional explanations of the process that changed the nature of religious institutions—and religious life itself—in the diocese of Verona during the early and central Middle Ages. Building on substantial archival research, she shows how demographic expansion, economic development, and political change helped transform religious ideals and ecclesiastical institutions into a recognizably "medieval" church.
Produktinformation
Utgivningsdatum1993-05-18
Mått155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt907 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9780801428371
UtmärkelserWinner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize (American Ca
Maureen C. Miller is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy, also from Cornell, and Power and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict.
In a well-argued and researched study, Maureen Miller has reexamined traditional interpretations of the medieval church in the period from 950 to 1150 through an analysis of the charters of the diocese of Verona, and she has found those interpretations inadequate.(Speculum)