Reforming the Church before Modernity

Part I Social Change and Religious Reform; Chapter 1 Church Reform and Society in Late Antiquity, Robert A. Markus; Chapter 2 Gaudium et Spes: Ecclesiastical Reformers at the Start of a "New Age", John Howe; Part II The Ideas of Reform and the Intellectuals; Chapter 3 Self and Cosmos in Becoming Deiform: Neoplatonic Paradigms for Reform by Self-knowledge from Augustine to Aquinas, Wayne J. Hankey; Chapter 4 The Early Scholastics and the Reform of Doctrine and Practice, Marcia L. Colish; Chapter 5 Fides quaerens et non quaerens intellectum: Reform and the Intellectuals in the Early Modern Period, John O'Malley; Part III Clerical Reform; Chapter 6 Clerical Hierarchy and Imperial Legislation in Late Antiquity: The Reformed Reformers, Rita Lizzi Testa; Chapter 7 To Consecrate the Church: Ecclesiastical Reform and the Dedication of Churches 1 Portions of the research for this article were completed through the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for research at the Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University, and the Fulbright Program. I would like to thank Richard F. Gyug for inviting me to participate in the conference "The Liturgy in Rome in the Eleventh Century" (Fordham University, April 1999), where this talk was originally presented. The late Rev. Leonard E. Boyle, OP graciously read and commented on an early draft of the article. I would also like to thank Daniel L. Smail for offering valuable suggestions and corrections, and Sible De Blaauw for timely help with questions of Roman architecture., Louis I. Hamilton; Chapter 8 The Reform of the Episcopate in the Libellus to Leo X by the Camaldolese Hermits Vincenzo Querini and Tommaso Giustiniani, Giuseppe Alberigo; Part IV The Processes of Reform; Chapter 9 The Church in the Roman Empire: Changes without Reform and Reforms without Change, Claire Sotinel; Chapter 10 Text and Authority in the Formation of the Cistercian Order: Re-assessing the Early Cistercian Reform, Martha G. Newman; Chapter 11 Compliance and Defiance: The Daughters of Charity and the Council of Trent, Susan E. Dinan;