[history] The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500 by Jørgen Møller | 6.02 MB
Title: The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500
Author: Jørgen Møller
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Generations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and consequent fragmentation of poweacross and within politiewas 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 anddomestic 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 societiesacral 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…
Generations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and consequent fragmentation of poweacross and within politiewas 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 anddomestic 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 societiesacral 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…
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