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This chapter concentrates on the history of the western church in the eighth and ninth centuries, which have generally been recognised as pivotal in the development of ecclesiastical organisation, canon law and the liturgy. In the middle of the ninth century the Notitia Galliarum was used for polemical purposes by the compilers of the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals to assert the primacy of one see over another, and more specifically, one metropolitan over another. The territorial structure of the churches in lands where Celtic Christians lived has always been an enigma in that Roman territorial structures had not existed in these areas. Visigothic Spain had an ecclesiastical organisation highly peculiar to that church. By the end of the ninth century liturgical rites in Western Europe, whether daily or occasional, were perhaps even more varied and rich than they had been at the beginning of the eighth century.

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22 - The organisation, law and liturgy of the western church, 700–900

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