The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273

The book 'The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273' contains the detailed political and ecclesiastical history of papacy in relationship with the chief states of southern and western Europe, in particular Germany, Italy, France, and the eastern empire. The author has discussed the expansion of the Latin and Catholic world and the development of the ecclesiastical system as these pertain to political history.Contents: Introduction The Saxon Kings of the Germans, and the Revival of the Roman Empire by Otto I The German Empire at the Height of its Power. The later Saxon and early Salian Emperors France and its Vassal States under the last Carolingians and the early Capetians The Cluniac Reformation, and Italy in the Eleventh Century, The Investiture Contest The Eastern Empire and theSeljukian Turks The Early Crusades and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem The Monastic Movement and the Twelfth Century Renascence Germany and Italy Frederick Barbarossa and Alexander III. The renewed Conflict between Papacy and Empire France, Normandy, and Anjou, and the Beginnings of the Greatness of the Capetian Monarchy The Third Crusade and the Reign of Henry VI Europe in the days of Innocent III The Byzantine Empire in the Twelfth Century; the Fourth Crusade, and the Latin Empire in the East Frederick II and the Papacy France under Philip Augustus and St. Louis The Universities and the Friars The Last Crusades and the East in the Thirteenth Century The Growth of Christian Spain The Fall of the Hohenstaufen and the Great Interregnum

Thomas Tout (1855-1929) was a 19th and 20th century British historian of the medieval period. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906. Tout was, with James Tait, one of the two leading figures of the 'Manchester History School', and is best known for his 6-volume Chapters in the Administrative History of Medieval England, whose influence still remains and was for 40 years magisterial in the shaping of late medieval English History scholarship. Concentrating, through close study of the Crown's administrative records, on how changes of government-method reflected changes in the nature of power and politics, the work stood the test of 19th-century constitutional history and mid-20th-century socio-political emphasis with very few fundamental criticisms of Tout's methods and conclusions.