“The Economics of Reform in the Middle Ages”
Kathryn L. Jasper
Scholarship has long recognized the primary economic mission of eleventh-century Church reform as restitution and protection ecclesiastical property. Most monographs on subject regard changes period fundamental to wider negotiations power. While study land tenure offers one context in which examine how customary authority canon law intersect, more recent work reveals a much complex landscape concerns. In particular, some excellent studies published last two decades consider relationship between polemic its manifestation ground. The interpretive shift towards focus local movements move studying aspects should often go hand hand. this way, we may arrive at holistic understanding issues raised during most intense reform, from 1046 (Synod Sutri) 1122 (Concordat Worms).
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