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

by Robert Somerville

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 no...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520415051
• ISBN13: 9780520415058
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"