Before the Gregorian Reform - The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium Howe JohnPaperback / softback
Before the Gregorian Reform - The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium Howe JohnPaperback / softback Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the…
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Before the Gregorian Reform - The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium Howe JohnPaperback / softback
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. 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. In Before the Gregorian Reform John Howe challenges this familiar narrative by examining earlier, "pre-Gregorian" reform efforts within the Church.
As Howe shows, however,