Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- List of manuscript sigla
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I THE FORMATION OF INTEREST
- 1 THE BISHOPS OF MENDE
- 2 THE STATE OF THE CHURCH
- 3 THE TWILIGHT OF AUTONOMY
- RESULTS: LIBERTY AND COMPROMISE
- PART II THE ASSERTION OF JUSTICE
- PART III THE INCIDENCE OF POWER
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix: A note on texts and citations
- Bibliography
- Concordance
- Index
- Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought Fourth series
2 - THE STATE OF THE CHURCH
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- List of manuscript sigla
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I THE FORMATION OF INTEREST
- 1 THE BISHOPS OF MENDE
- 2 THE STATE OF THE CHURCH
- 3 THE TWILIGHT OF AUTONOMY
- RESULTS: LIBERTY AND COMPROMISE
- PART II THE ASSERTION OF JUSTICE
- PART III THE INCIDENCE OF POWER
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix: A note on texts and citations
- Bibliography
- Concordance
- Index
- Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought Fourth series
Summary
What God has joined together let no man put asunder. These words were said about the first parents, Adam and Eve, but they apply just as well to the church of Rome and the kingdom and kings of the French, whom God has joined forever.
Boniface VIIISo far we have considered the diocese of Mende from a local perspective. But ever since the beginning of Stephen's reign the control over the diocese had been passing out of local hands. During the years after the death of Odilo de Mercoeur, it finally passed into the hands of the spiritual and the temporal monarchies. We therefore need to shift our attention toward the growth of central government.
This matter is so broad and has received so much attention that it is neither possible nor necessary for us to deal with it in much detail. We do, however, need to identify two of its basic features. One was that the demise of the Hohenstaufen freed the papacy from the long-standing burden of war with the emperor and thus enabled it to resume vigorous leadership of the Christian commonwealth. The other was that in so doing it entered into an ever closer partnership with the most Christian king of France. It was the French whom the papacy called upon to pacify the lands of the Hohenstaufen in southern Italy; Frenchmen ascended to the papal throne; and general councils met in France.
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- Council and HierarchyThe Political Thought of William Durant the Younger, pp. 55 - 72Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991