Publisher's Synopsis
In 1327 Pope John XXII granted the Hermits of Saint Augustine joint possession of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia a church that had been for a century in the sole charge of the Canons Regular of St Augustine. Both orders claimed a founding by St Augustine himself, whose relics wre somewhere in the church - although their precise location was unknown. The precedented division of the church and the ensuing conflict between the Hermits and the Canons were embedded in the larger struggle between the forces of universal church and regional state that engulfed the city of Pavia and ultimately much of Italy in the 14th century.
