Interdisciplinary studies in the conceptualization and exercise of authority and power in the medieval Church.

Through careful analysis of the Romanesque cathedral of Molfetta (in Apulia, southern Italy), Williams demonstrates how the commercial boom of the medieval Mediterranean changed the way churches were funded, designed, and built.

Issu de deux colloques pluridisciplinaires qui se proposaient d'étudier les notions relevant du champ sémantique de la croyance religieuse, ce volume part du constat que ces termes sont le plus souvent équivoques, ce qui pèse encore sur les recherches en sciences sociales.