Varieties of Monastic Discipline in Southern Italy During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Graham A. Loud
The conquest of southern Italy by the Normans during eleventh century incorporated what had hitherto been a peripheral region more fully within mainstream Western Europe. However, notwithstanding this, in number respects development Church Norman followed its own idiosyncratic pattern, rather different from trends that prevailed other parts contemporary Latin Christendom. This distinctive evolution can be clearly observed south Italian monasticism and twelfth centuries.
Studies in Church History