Research Catalog

Title

Power and the holy in the age of the investiture conflict : a brief history with documents / Maureen C. Miller.

Author

Miller, Maureen C. (Maureen Catherine), 1959-

Publication

Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, c2005.

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Details

Description

xviii, 189 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Summary

Historians tracing the emerging division between church and state in the West have long recognized the importance of the eleventh-century Gregorian reform movement and the investiture conflict -- events that reached a dramatic climax in Pope Gregory VII's excommunication of Emperor Henry IV. In her introduction to this ground-breaking volume, the author recasts the narrative of reform and the investiture conflict -- traditionally portrayed as an elitist struggle between church and state -- in terms of a broad shift in conceptions of the nature of power and the holy.--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

The Bedford series in history and culture

Subjects

• History
• Church history
• 600-1500
• Europe > Church history > 600-1500
• Monasticism and religious orders > Europe > History
• Investiture

Genre/Form

• Church history
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-178) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

PART ONE : Introduction : The investiture conflict in Western history -- -- PART TWO : The documents. Movements for reform. Responses to the Carolingian crisis ; monastic reform ; clerical celibacy and simony ; canonical or "free" election -- The investiture conflict. The combatants : Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII ; the first confrontation ; Canossa ; civil war ; compromise -- The consequences of reform. Lay engagement with the faith ; the clergy ; bishops ; the papacy ; sanctity and just rulership.

ISBN

• 0312404689 (pbk.)
• 9780312404680 (pbk.)
• 1403968063 (hardcover)
• 9781403968067 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2004109152

OCLC

• 70157852
• SCSB-11737587

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library