The Church
Rosamond McKitterick
The history of the church in Europe tenth and early eleventh centuries is essentially many local churches, which dominant role secular ecclesiastical religious life was played by bishops. Parish churches are associated not only with smaller units a city, such as those created Bishop Burchard Worms century, areas countryside, but also individual lords' estates, so-called Eigenkirchen. charters witness to contact being maintained between papacy England, France, Spain Germany well Italy Rome itself. Ever since their first bishop, Anskar, had preached Gospel Denmark Sweden, bishops, way Adam Bremen tells story, directed energies towards establishing Scandinavia. conciliar decisions century overall have clear acknowledged debt Carolingian councils.
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