9781333588342 - The Making of Western Europe, Vol. 2: Being an Attempt to Trace the Fortunes of the Children of the Roman Empire; The First Renaissance, 1000-1190 A. D (Classic Rep... (3 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book begins in the year 1000 AD, a period of vast political, religious, and cultural change across Europe. Focusing on the lands that would become France, Spain, Germany, and Italy, the author examines the forces which shaped these regions in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. These disparate regions were defined by both their internal dynamics and their interaction with the growing power of the Papacy. The author argues that the Papacy exploited the feudal anarchy and civic particularism of the period to assert a universal mandate to rule both spiritual and temporal affairs, and that this claim to supremacy had a profound impact on the development of nation states particularly in Germany and Italy. However, the author also shows how the Gregorian reform movement, which sought to purify the Church and end clerical corruption, laid the foundations for later Protestant movements. The author concludes with the death in 1056 of Henry III, the last of the Saxon emperors, and the beginning of a period of uncertainty in which the contest of Investitures over who had the right to appoint bishops would shape the future of both Church and State for centuries to come. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.