The Medieval Abbey of Farfa

Target of Papal and Imperial Ambitions
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-04-10704-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 74, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 721 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This is the first comprehensive study in English about the medieval imperial abbey of Farfa, which played a key role in the period of ecclesiastical reform, beginning in the mid-eleventh century. Its main sources are the Register and Chronicle, compiled by Gregory of Catino, a partisan monk.
Controlling strategic property in central Rome and along the coast of Latium, Farfa functioned as a quasi-imperial embassy, supporting the empire in its struggle with the papacy for hegemony. Imperial ties and internal conflicts led to Farfa's loss of liberties and dependency upon the papacy.
The book both depicts the competition between the empire and the papacy, and charts Farfa's losing struggle to maintain Benedictine standards and its independence from an expansive papacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stroll, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Über Autor(innen)

Mary E. Stroll, Ph.D. (1975), Department of History, University of California, San Diego. Among her publications are The Jewish Pope, (Brill, 1987) and Symbols as Power, (Brill, 1991).