Tellenbach, Gerd Additional Author mixed material bibliography University of Toronto Press University of Toronto Press 1991 monographic en English

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MEDIEVAL ACADEMY REPRINTS FOR TEACHING CHURCH, STATE AND SOCIETY AT THE TIME OF THE INVESTITURE CONTEST GERD TELLENBACH translated by R.P. BENNETT The battle between episcopalism and papalism has, in spite of periodic interruptions, intermittently disturbed the Church from the earliest Christian era down to the present time, and the relationship between Christianity and the secular state is, for Catholics and Protestants alike, still a deeply moving and not yet completely solved question. The best-known and most violent conflict to which it ever gave rise, the struggle in which Church and State met each other in the pride of their strength and fully armed with their natural weapons, was the Investiture Controversy.' From the Epilogue At the time of the first publication of this translation, GERD TELLENBACH Was Professor in the University of Geissen and R.F BENNETT was Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. The illustration on the cover, showing Good and Bad Government, is taken from St Augustine De civitate Dei (Canterbury e 1100) (Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, Cod. Plut. xii, 17, fiv 261.709080206857x Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 261.709 Tel c E10002311 Non Fiction 261.709 Tel c Church%2C_State%2C_and_Christian_Society_at_the_Time_of_the_Investiture_Contest.jpg 64487 2014-12-17 10:19:06 2026-02-12 16:18:17 machine generated