Developing Definitions of Reform in the Church in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
Julia Barrow
There is a noticeable gap between the use of ‘reform’ terminology (<italic>reformo, reformatio</italic>) in pre-1100 period and modern usage: earlier Middle Ages was essentially used to refer restoration peace, buildings, property or spiritual sense, as change heart (as established by Gerd Ladner on basis patristic writings); it also that reform much less medieval authors, especially pre-1215, than historians writing about above all church. Nonetheless, did begin, very slowly, be ecclesiastical institutions tenth early eleventh centuries, first diocese Rheims Lotharingia later Burgundy, this chapter attempts show how process began, tracing earliest moves towards records Carolingian church councils tenth-century historical narratives.
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