Before the Gregorian Reform: The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium

by John Howe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501732684
• ISBN13: 9781501732683
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher