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Churchbooks
Medieval Christianity was concerned with far more than the study of sacred
Scripture. The Church also venerated the saints as models of the Christian
life. Thus, the Church depended upon hagiographical and liturgical texts
for its daily functioning, as well as administrative documents issued
by bishops. In the Latin West, the head of the Church was the bishop of
Rome, that is, the pope. In his documents he styled himself servus
servorum dei "the servant of the servants of God"
in memory of Christs command that "the greatest among
you must serve the least."
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