E-Books →Reimagining Christendom Writing Iceland's Bishops into the Roman Church, 1200–1350

Free Download Joel D. Anderson, "Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops into the Roman Church, 1200-1350 "
English | ISBN: 1512822825 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 4 MB
With its expanding legal system and its burgeoning throngs of lawyers, legates, and documents, the papacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has often been credited with spearheading a governmental revolution that molded the high medieval church into an increasingly disciplined, uniform, and machine-like institution. Reimagining Christendom offers a fresh appraisal of these developments from a surprising and distinctive vantage point. Tracing the web of textual ties that connected the northern fringes of Europe to the Roman see, Joel D. Anderson explores the ways in which Norse writers recruited, refashioned, and repurposed the legal principles and official documents of the Roman church for their own ends.