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This excellent monograph demonstrates incisively how local and regional historical development must be related to national and pan-European medieval history. The social component of ecclesiastical cohort of the community of Vic, the county of Ausonia, Catalonia, as well as the lands north of the Pyrenees, is explored by and factored into Paul Freedman's carefully structured narrative and analyses. Building on the solid foundation of archival sources at Barcelona, Madrid, and Vic, standard printed primary sources, and, of course, a thorough familiarity with modern scholarship, including the extensive contributions of Spanish scholarship during the past two decades, Freedman provides a valuable addition to the body of American medieval Iberian studies. In five carefully crafted chapters, Freedman dissects the "cathedral of Vic from three perspectives: as a force in society before and during the twelfth century, as part of the political structure of the Catalan government, and as an institution in decline faced with the necessity of painful adaptation". His further major objective, he tells us, is to illustrate "the social role of the church and its responses to the power of secular a

Author

Paul Freedman, 1949-

Publisher

New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780081350973

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, History