Sacred City Consecrating Churches and Reforming Society in Eleventh-Century Italy

Informationen zum Autor Louis I. Hamilton is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Drew University Klappentext Through an examination of the rite and practice of consecrating (dedication) churches in eleventh-century Italy, A Sacred City examines how ritual was employed to foster the Gregorian reform and how sacred space shaped identity, generated conflict, and provoked a debate over symbolic meaning and ecclesiology among the reformers. Zusammenfassung Through an examination of the rite and practice of consecrating (dedication) churches in eleventh-century Italy! A Sacred City examines how ritual was employed to foster the Gregorian reform and how sacred space shaped identity! generated conflict! and provoked a debate over symbolic meaning and ecclesiology among the reformers. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: a sacred city 1. The liturgies for the dedication of a new church2. "Turba concurrit": attending the ritual and its meanings3. Peter Damian from mystical to political allegory4. Anselm of Lucca, Urban II and the invention of orthodox dedication5. Bruno of Segni and Paschal II: from coordination to conflictConclusion: liturgy and history Appendix A: Italian dedications with named participants Appendix B: papal dedications (1009-1143)BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Louis I. Hamilton, HAMILTON LOUIS I, Louis I Hamilton, Louis Hamilton
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.07.2010
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity
• EAN: 9780719080265
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8026-5
• Pages: 288
• Series: Manchester Medieval Studies; Manchester Medieval Studies
• Subjects: European History, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Church history, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval