Power and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series In History And Culture) - Softcover

Miller, Maureen C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312404689 ISBN 13: 9780312404680

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005

Synopsis

Power and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict places the conflict that eventually led to the seperation of church and state within the wider context of social and political change in medieval Europe, broadening the scope from its traditional portrayal as an elitist struggle between church and state.

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About the Author:

MAUREEN C. MILLER is associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and has also taught at George Mason University and Hamilton College. A specialist in medieval European history, she received her doctorate from Harvard University. She is the author of The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy (2000), which was awarded the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian History Studies, and of The Formation of a Medieval Church: Ecclesiastical Change in Verona, 950-1150 (1993), which was a winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312404689
• ISBN 13: 9780312404680
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208