Power And Piety: The Role of the Church In Shaping Medieval European Political Structures
Keywords:
Medieval Europe, Church, Political Power, Papacy, Investiture Controversy, Feudalism, Religious Authority, Political LegitimacyAbstract
During medieval times in Europe, there was little difference between political and religious power, which made the Church a major influence on the continent’s political systems. The article looks into how the Church’s control over society, government, and laws was influenced by its authority and power. The book explains how both faith and authority impacted medieval politics through the analysis of events such as the Investiture Controversy, what the papacy involved, and the Church’s role in matters with kings. Since it was a religious body and also played a major political role, the Church influenced the evolution of medieval systems of government in Europe.
References
Bartlett, R. (1993). The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change 950-1350. Princeton University Press.
Berman, H. J. (1983). Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition. Harvard University Press.
Bouchard, C. B. (2002). Strong of Body, Brave and Noble: Chivalry and Society in Medieval France. Cornell University Press.
Bynum, C. W. (1995). Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe. Zone Books.
Cantor, N. F. (1971). Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture in England, 1089-1135. Princeton University Press.
Cantor, N. F. (1993). The Civilization of the Middle Ages. HarperCollins.
Davis, R. H. C. (1992). The Medieval Church: A Brief History. Pearson Education.
Geary, P. J. (1988). Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World. Oxford University Press.
Leyser, K. (1994). Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great. Oxford University Press.
McBrien, R. P. (1994). The Church: The Evolution of Catholicism. HarperOne.
Morris, C. (1989). The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250. Clarendon Press.
Southern, R. W. (1970). Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. Penguin Books.
Southern, R. W. (1997). The Making of the Middle Ages. Yale University Press.
Tierney, B. (1982). The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300. University of Toronto Press.
Ullmann, W. (1972). The Growth of Papal Government in the Middle Ages: A Study in the Ideological Relation of Clerical to Lay Power. Methuen.
Downloads
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
