Louis Hamilton

A sacred city

Consecrating churches and reforming society in eleventh-century Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The so-called Investiture Conflict was a watershed moment in the political life of the Latin West and the history of the papacy. Occurring at a time of rapid social change and political expansion, the eleventh-century reform movement became a debate centered on a ritual: the investment of bishops with the signs of their sacred and secular authority. The consecration of bishops, however, was only one of several contemporaneous conflicts over the significance of consecrations. Less well known is that which occurred over the dedication of churches. This book provides an examination of the consecration, placing the fundamental questions of the Gregorian Reform and Investiture Conflict back into their original liturgical framework. This context allows us to consider the symbolic richness of the liturgy that attracted large numbers of people.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780719080265
• ISBN-10: 0719080266
• Artikelnr.: 30882902

Autorenporträt

Louis I. Hamilton is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Drew University

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: a sacred city 1. The liturgies
for the dedication of a new church 2. "Turba concurrit": attending the
ritual and its meanings 3. Peter Damian from mystical to political allegory
4. Anselm of Lucca, Urban II and the invention of orthodox dedication 5.
Bruno of Segni and Paschal II: from coordination to conflict Conclusion:
liturgy and history Appendix A: Italian dedications with named participants
Appendix B: papal dedications (1009-1143) Bibliography Index