Tradition and Authority in the Western Church, 300-1140 /

Tradition and Authority in the Western Church, 300-1140 / / Karl F. Morrison.

Beginning with the conversion of Constantine in 312 and the establishment of the Christian Empire, the book continues through the Middle Ages up to the publication of Gratian's Decretum, the great, systematic book of Church law which transformed the idea of tradition into legal concepts. Throug...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Morrison, Karl F.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1969
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 2402
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Physical Description:1 online resource (478 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Tradition as a Safeguard of Cohesion
  • Book I. Tradition as Warrant of Schism: The Church in the Later Roman Empire
  • Part I. Multiple Centers of Cohesion
  • Chapter 2. Paradoxes of Unity
  • Part II. The "Janus Complex" in Roman Thought
  • Chapter 3. The Conflict of Tradition and Discretion
  • Chapter 4. The Byzantine Papacy: Tradition Reaffirmed
  • Part III. Beginning a New Era
  • Chapter 5. The Eighth-Century Crisis: Papal Reassertion and Frankish Dissent
  • Chapter 6. Confrontation and Disengagement: Tradition and Political Groupings in the Iconoclastic Dispute
  • Chapter 7. Summary: The Progress of Transvaluation
  • Book II. Tradition Transvaluated: Tradition, Discretion, and Political Groupings in the West from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century
  • Chapter 8. The New Political Order
  • Part I. The Ninth and Tenth Centuries: Tradition and Official Spontaneity
  • Chapter 9. The Popes and the Franks
  • Chapter 10. The Tenth Century: Hardening the Lines
  • Part II. The Investiture Controversy: A Test of Accountability
  • Chapter 11. Tradition Discarded: The Gregorians
  • Chapter 12. Tradition: Watchword of Resistance
  • Chapter 13. Conflict Among the Reformers
  • Chapter 14. Results of the Controversy
  • Chapter 15. Summary: From Law to Jurisprudence
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A. Second Thoughts on the Attitudes of Popes Nicholas I and John VIII Toward Temporal Government
  • Appendix B. Saxon Germany and the Myth of the Sacerdotal King
  • Appendix C. The Gregorian Reformers' View of Temporal Government
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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