The Latin Church in Norman Italy
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First
published in 2007, this was the first significant study of the
incorporation of the Church in southern Italy into the mainstream of
Latin Christianity during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Professor
G. A. Loud examines the relationship between Norman rulers, south
Italian churchmen and the external influence of the new 'papal
monarchy'. He discusses the impact of the creation of the new kingdom of
Sicily in 1130; the tensions that arose from the papal schism of that
era; and the religious policy and patronage of the new monarchs. He also
explores the internal structures of the Church, both secular and
monastic, and the extent and process of Latinisation within the
Graecophone areas of the mainland and on the island of Sicily, where at
the time of the Norman conquest the majority of the population was
Muslim. This is a major contribution to the political, religious and
cultural history of the Central Middle Ages.
