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Book SynopsisBeginning with the conversion of Constantine in 312 and the establishment of the Christian Empire, the book continues through the Middle Ages up to the publication of Gratian's Decretum, the great, systematic book of Church law which transformed the idea of tradition into legal concepts. Throughout this period the hierarchy was called upon to deal
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xv*Chapter 1. Tradition as a Safeguard of Cohesion, pg. 1*Chapter 2. Paradoxes of Unity, pg. 37*Chapter 3. The Conflict of Tradition and Discretion, pg. 77*Chapter 4. The Byzantine Papacy: Tradition Reaffirmed, pg. 111*Chapter 5. The Eighth-Century Crisis: Papal Reassertion and Frankish Dissent, pg. 155*Chapter 6. Confrontation and Disengagement: Tradition and Political Groupings in the Iconoclastic Dispute, pg. 168*Chapter 7. Summary: The Progress of Transvaluation, pg. 195*Chapter 8. The New Political Order, pg. 205*Chapter 9. The Popes and the Franks, pg. 213*Chapter 10. The Tenth Century: Hardening the Lines, pg. 254*Chapter 11. Tradition Discarded: The Gregorians, pg. 269*Chapter 12. Tradition: Watchword of Resistance, pg. 292*Chapter 13. Conflict Among the Reformers, pg. 318*Chapter 14. Results of the Controversy, pg. 342*Chapter 15. Summary: From Law to Jurisprudence, pg. 349*Appendix A. Second Thoughts on the Attitudes of Popes Nicholas I and John VIII Toward Temporal Government, pg. 363*Appendix B. Saxon Germany and the Myth of the Sacerdotal King, pg. 373*Appendix C. The Gregorian Reformers' View of Temporal Government, pg. 390*Bibliography, pg. 409*Index, pg. 445
