John, Robert Brentano's book on Rieti might be worth looking at. Tom Izbicki At 08:43 PM 4/9/2000 -0500, you wrote: >To Medieval-Religion: > > One of my students asked about preparing a thesis proposal concerning the >training of and the ministry of parish priests in medieval Italy. Leaving >aside, for a minute, the question of when Italian rural ecclesiastical >organization actually coalesced into something that we would recognize as a >parish system--and leaving aside the fragments of information found in >hagiographical sources, tithes lists, etc.--is there any good general >bibliography on these questions? > > John Howe > Texas Tech University > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%