The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500

by Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Stavnskær Doucette

Generations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and consequent fragmentation of power - across and within polities - was a necessary condition for the European development of the modern territorial state, modern representative democracy, and modern levels of prosperity. The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500 inserts the Catholic Church as the main engine of this persistent international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192857118
• ISBN13: 9780192857118
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"