Popes and Emperors, 962-1268

About the Book

This work is a consideration of the relationships of popes and emperors, from the early tenth until the mid-thirteenth century. The work critiques historicist phenomenological interpretations of these relationships, through considering the influences of socio-economic structures, intellectual culture(s) [both in terms of Graeco-Roman lego-philosophical thought, and linguistic social-anthropology (scholastic speculative-grammar, in other words)], and by solvitur ambulando. And, proposes, the said relationships ought to be considered, not as the dialectic of Hegelian Staatsideen but, as struggles for power- and perhaps even virtue- within two separate structural contexts. Consequently, the first volume of this work considers the fate of the Reich created by Otto I and his successors, and the second papal activity during the long-twelfth century of the High Middle Ages.

About the Author

S.McQuillan was educated in Glasgow, Munich and Rome; and is the author of several works upon mediaeval ecclesiastical history.