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The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500 (Hardcover)
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The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500 (Hardcover)
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Generations 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. The
Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500 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 'crisis of
church and state' that began in the second half of the eleventh
century is argued here as having 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.
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