Pope Alexander III and the Council of Tours (1163): A Study of Ecclesiastical Politics and Institutions in the Twelfth Century

by Robert Somerville

Book Overview

From the Preface:

The 1163 council at Tours met amidst the most protracted conflict between a pope and a secular ruler in medieval history, the eighteen-year struggle between Alexander III and Frederick Barbarossa. The gathering duly receives a paragraph or so in surveys of that dispute, and it usually is included--and properly so--in lists of the important sources for twelfth- and thirteenth-century canon law. But the meeting has been accorded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520303121
• ISBN13: 9780520303126
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"