The Latin Church in the Crusader States: The Secular Church by Bernard Hamilton PDF

By Bernard Hamilton

this is often the 1st significant paintings at the heritage of the secular church within the Frankish states of Syria and the Holy Land - a topic which has now not hitherto attracted the curiosity of ecclesiastical historians. the current publication has been written to fill this significant hole in crusader experiences. It offers with the interval stretching from the institution of a Latin hierarchy after the 1st campaign to the ultimate conquest through the Mamluks in 1291. Dr Hamilton examines the advance of the Church within the Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch and its employer from the parish point upwards. chapters are dedicated to a examine of its resources of source of revenue and the monetary difficulties that arose after the conflict of Hattin during the 13th century. specific awareness is paid to the relatives among the Latin and the japanese church buildings. the writer records the unequal remedy given to the Orthodox and to the separated church buildings, and strains the process a number of the makes an attempt at church union. In his end he makes an total overview of the non secular achievments of the Church in this interval and the level to which it justified the 1st crusaders' ideals.

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