Awards

• Winner of Winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize (American Ca.

Overview

In this provocative account, Maureen Miller challenges traditional explanations of the process that changed the nature of religious institutions-and religious life itself-in the diocese of Verona during the early and central Middle Ages. Building on substantial archival research, she shows how demographic expansion, economic development, and political change helped transform religious ideals and ecclesiastical institutions into a recognizably ""medieval"" church.

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In a well-argued and researched study Maureen Miller has reexamined traditional interpretations of the medieval church in the period from 950 to 1150 through an analysis of the charters of the diocese of Verona, and she has found those interpretations inadequate. -James R. Banker, Speculum

Author Information

Maureen C. Miller is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, c. 800-1200, The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy, and The Formation of a Medieval Church: Ecclesiastical Change in Verona, 950-1150, all from Cornell, and Power and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict: A Brief Documentary History.

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