Wood, What motive to build a church?
Origins linked to property, insecurity, and assertion of status..
The Source:
Susan Wood, The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West, Oxford University Press 2006
Praise for the book:
“Here, then, sustained across nearly a thousand pages, seen through the bifocal lenses of a richly paradoxical theme, is a comprehensive vision of the earlier medieval world, in which every piece of evidence touched on is handled with res…