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