The English Church and the Papacy: From the Conquest to the Reign of John

by Zachary Nugent Brooke , Introduction by Christopher N. L. Brooke

• ISBN13: 9780521366878
• ISBN10: 0521366879
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-07-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Since this book was first published in 1931 the English church in the eleventh and twelfth centuries has been studied in depth, yet Z. N. Brooke's The English Church and the Papacy, now reissued with a new introduction by C. N. L. Brooke, remains the indispensable point from which all expeditions over this territory begin. The author set out first to determine what the law of the English Church was, and to seek the books on which it was based; then to draw out the consequences of what he had discovered in a general survey of the relations of England and Rome. The crisp, clear judgements on themes and characters in the second half are still worth pondering, for all the nuances that have been added since.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

1. Ecclesia Anglicana

2. The Western Church in the eleventh century

3. The law of the Western Church

Part I. The Law of the Church in England: 4. The method of this enquiry

5. Lanfranc's collection

6. The twelfth-century collections

7. Medieval libraries and contemporary writers

Part II. The Relations of England with the Papacy: 8. Lanfranc

9. William the Conqueror: the traditional outlook

10. St Anselm: the rise of a papal party

11. Henry I: the maintenance of royal control

12. Stephen: the 'freedom of the Church'

13. Henry II and Thomas Becket

14. Epilogue: from the death of Becket to Magna Carta

Appendix

Index.