Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 20 August 1998
- ISBN 9780198206460
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages760 pages
- Size 240x160x50 mm
- Weight 1275 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The reign of Pope Gregory VII (1073-85) is critically important in the history of the medieval Church and Papacy. This original and authoritative study, the first for over fifty years, records the remarkable career of the Pope who started life as a humble clerk of the Roman church, gave his name to the Gregorian Reforms, and finally died in exile at Salerno. His reign prepared the way for an age of strong papal monarchy throughout medieval Europe.
MoreLong description:
The reign of Pope Gregory VII (1073-85), who gave his name to an era of Church reform, is critically important in the history of the medieval church and papacy. Thus it is surprising that this is the first comprehensive biography to appear in any language for over fifty years. H. E. J. Cowdrey presents Gregory's life and work in their entirety, tracing his career from early days as a clerk of the Roman Church, through his political negotiations, ecclesiastical governance, and final exile at Salerno. Full account is taken of his turbulent relations with King Henry IV of Germany, from his first deposition and excommunication in 1076, to the absolution at Canossa and the imposition of a second sentence in 1080. Pope Gregory was also a contemporary of William the Conqueror, and, as the author shows, fully supported his conquest of England.
Gregory VII is presented as an individual whose deep inner belief in iustitia (righteousness) did not waver in the face of new circumstances, although his broad outlook underwent changes. Deeply committed to the traditions of the past and especially to those of Pope Gregory the Great, his reign prepared the way for an age of strong papal monarchy in the western Church.
No one has treated the famous Dictatus papae more convincingly than Cowdrey, to whom they mark an early and undeveloped stage in the Pope's thinking ... Gregory's personality was so towering, many of his acts so dramatic and the reactions to him so complex that writing his biography is like climbing an academic Everest. Everything Cowdrey has done in a very distinguished career has been leading up to this. It is the culmination of a life's work, and in my view it is a masterpiece.
