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Before the Gregorian Reform - The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium (Hardcover)
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Before the Gregorian Reform - The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium (Hardcover)
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Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about
1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin
Church, for it was then that the Gregorian Reform movement
established the ecclesiastical structure that would ensure Rome's
dominance throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. In Before the
Gregorian Reform John Howe challenges this familiar narrative by
examining earlier, "pre-Gregorian" reform efforts within the
Church. He finds that they were more extensive and widespread than
previously thought and that they actually established a foundation
for the subsequent Gregorian Reform movement. The low point in the
history of Christendom came in the late ninth and early tenth
centuries-a period when much of Europe was overwhelmed by barbarian
raids and widespread civil disorder, which left the Church in a
state of disarray. As Howe shows, however, the destruction gave
rise to creativity. Aristocrats and churchmen rebuilt churches and
constructed new ones, competing against each other so that church
building, like castle building, acquired its own momentum. Patrons
strove to improve ecclesiastical furnishings, liturgy, and
spirituality. Schools were constructed to staff the new churches.
Moreover, Howe shows that these reform efforts paralleled broader
economic, social, and cultural trends in Western Europe including
the revival of long-distance trade, the rise of technology, and the
emergence of feudal lordship. The result was that by the
mid-eleventh century a wealthy, unified, better-organized,
better-educated, more spiritually sensitive Latin Church was
assuming a leading place in the broader Christian world. Before the
Gregorian Reform challenges us to rethink the history of the Church
and its place in the broader narrative of European history.
Compellingly written and generously illustrated, it is a book for
all medievalists as well as general readers interested in the
Middle Ages and Church history.
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