A short history of the Catholic Church.
Denis Meadows
BookGenerations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and consequent fragmentation of power - across and within polities - was a necessary condition for the European development of the modern territorial state, modern representative democracy, and modern levels of prosperity. This book inserts the Catholic Church as the main engine of this persistent international and domestic power pluralism, which has moulded European state-formation for almost a millennium. The book argues that the 'crisis of church and state' that began in the second half of the eleventh century fundamentally reshaped European patterns of state formation and regime change. It did so by doing away with the norm in historical societies--sacral monarchy--and by consolidating the two great balancing acts European state-builders have been engaged in since the eleventh century: against strong social groups and against each other. The book traces the roots of this crisis to a large-scale breakdown of public authority in the Latin West, which began in the ninth century, and which at one and the same time incentivised and permitted a religious reform movement to radically transform the Catholic Church in the period from the late tenth century onwards. Drawing on a unique dataset of towns, parliaments, and ecclesiastical institutions such as bishoprics and monasteries, the book documents how this church reform movement was crucial for the development and spread of self-government (the internal balancing act) and the weakening of the Holy Roman Empire (the external balancing act) in the period AD 1000-1500. --Book jacket.
Title |
The Catholic Church and European state formation, AD 1000-1500 / Jørgen Møller, Jonathan Stavnskær Doucette. |
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Contributors |
Stavnskær Doucette, Jonathan (author) |
Publisher |
Oxford : Oxford University Press |
Creation Date |
[2022] |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-205) and indexes. |
Content |
Introduction: Bringing the church back in -- The conflict of church and state -- A new dataset of ecclesiastical and lay institutions in the Latin West -- The reform movement and urban self-government -- The invention and spread of representation and consent -- The church and the multistate system -- Corollaries of the Hohenstaufen collapse -- Conclusions: Taking stock and looking forward. |
Extent |
xiii, 223 pages : illustrations 24 cm |
Language |
English |
Copyright Date |
©2022 |
National Library system number |
997012278957705171 |
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