Allitt, P: Catholic Converts Culture and Conversation During Perestroika
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Sprache:Englisch
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
18.04.2000
Verlag
Cornell University PressSeitenzahl
360
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22.6/15/2.2 cm
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485 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8014-8663-0
Miller argues that the change reflects both the emergence of a distinct clerical culture and the attempts of bishops to maintain authority in public life. She relates both to the Gregorian reform movement, which set new standards for clerical deportment and at the same time undercut to secular power. As bishops lost temporal authority in their cities to emerging communal governments, they compensated architecturally and competed with the communes for visual and spatial dominance in the urban center. This rivalry left indelible marks on the layout and character of Italian cities.
Moreover, Miller contends, this struggle for power had highly significant, but mixed, results for western Christianity. On the one hand, as bishops lost direct governing their cities, they devised ways to retain status, influence, and power through cultural practices. This response to loss was highly, creative. On the other hand, their loss of secular control led bishops to emphasize their spiritual powers and to use them to obtain temporal ends. The coercive use of spiritual authority contributed to the emergence of a "persecuting society" in the central Middle Ages.
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