Article: Church Reform and Social Change: Dominic of Sora and His Patrons.(Review)(Brief Article)

by John Howe University of Pennsylvania Press, $37.50, 220 pp.

Dominic of Sora (d. 1032) is a minor figure in church history. Born in Foligno, he entered the monastic life, trained on Mount Subasio in Umbria (where much later Francis of Assisi would keep a hermitage), and spent the rest of his life wandering through central Italy as a founder of monasteries, a sometime hermit, preacher in parishes, and reformer of the clergy. Howe, in this highly technical work of medieval history, untangles Dominic's life to demonstrate how a charismatic religious reformer of the eleventh century worked at a level beneath that of popes, emperors, and learned canonists. The casual ...

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