Charlemagne's survey of the Holy Land : wealth, personnel, and buildings of a Mediterranean church between antiquity and the Middle Ages : with a critical edition and translation of the original text / Michael McCormick.

Author
McCormick, Michael, 1951- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, ©2011.
Description
xxii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm + 1 wall poster (64 x 61 cm folded to 22 x 16 cm).

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    Dumbarton Oaks medieval humanities [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Michael McCormick rehabilitates and reinterprets one of the most neglected and extraordinary sources from Charlemagne's revival of the Roman empire: the report of a fact-finding mission to the Christian church of the Holy Land. The roll of documents translated and edited in this volume preserves the most detailed statistical portrait before the Domesday Book of the finances, monuments (including exact dimensions), and female and male personnel of any major Christian church. --from publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Pt. 1. A Mediterranean church in the early Middle Ages
    • The wealth of a Mediterranean church in comparative perspective
    • A bumpy road from late antiquity : the Holy Land churches
    • Toward a comparative sociology of early medieval religious houses
    • The Carolingian establishments in the Holy Land
    • Late antique monuments and early medieval people of the Holy Land
    • pt. 2. The documents
    • The Basel roll
    • The languages and sources of the roll
    • The date, purpose, and context of the documents
    • From Aachen to Jerusalem
    • pt. 3. Texts, translation, and textual commentary
    • The Basel roll : critical edition and translation (Breue commemoratorii de illis casis Dei uel monasteriis qui sunt in sancta ciuitate Hierusalem uel in circuitu eius; Memoria de illis monasteriis quae sunt in extremis Hierusalem in terra promissionis; Dispensa patriarchae inter presbiteris, diaconibus, monachis, clericis et omne congregatione ecclesiae)
    • Textual commentary.
    ISBN
    • 9780884023630 ((alk. paper))
    • 088402363X ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2009022797
    OCLC
    808990193
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