This fascinating collection of sources, translated for the first time in English and assembled in one accessible volume, show the startling impact of papal refo

The eleventh-century papal reform transformed the western European Church and society and permanently altered the relations of Church and State in the west. The

This book explores the relationship between the papacy and reform against the backdrop of social and religious change in later tenth and eleventh-century Europe

The essays in this volume centre upon the epoch-making papacy of Gregory VII (1073-85), and complement the author’s major study of the pope. They look at the