1st Edition
The Latin Church in the Crusader States The Secular Church
By Bernard Hamilton
Copyright 1980
424 Pages
by
Routledge
420 Pages
by
Routledge
424 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first major work on the history of the secular church in the Frankish states of Syria and the Holy Land - a subject which has not hitherto attracted the interest of ecclesiastical historians. The present book has been written to fill this important gap in crusader studies. It deals with the period stretching from the establishment of a Latin hierarchy after the First Crusade to the... Read more
Preface, 1. The First Crusade and the Eastern Churches, 2. The establishment of a Latin Church at Antioch, 3. The establishment of a Latin Church at Jerusalem, 4. Latin parish organisation, 5. The senior Latin clergy in the twelfth century, 6. The sources of income of the Latin Church in the twelfth century, 7. Relations with the Orthodox, 1098-1187, 8. Relations with the separated Eastern Churches, 1098-1187, 9. The Latin Church of Antioch after 1187, 10. The Latin Church of Jerusalem after 1187, 11. The economic problems of the Latin Church in the thirteenth century, 12. The Orthodox schisms at Jerusalem and Antioch, 13. Reunion with separated Eastern Christians, 14. The spiritual work of the Latin Church in Syria, Appendix, Abbreviations, Bibliographies, Maps, Index
Biography
Bernard Hamilton
