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Power and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict

First  Edition©2005 Maureen C. Miller

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Historians tracing the emerging division between church and state in the West have long recognized the importance of the eleventh-century Gregorian reform movement and the investiture conflict — events that reached a dramatic climax in Pope Gregory VII’s excommunication of Emperor Henry IV. In her introduction to this ground-breaking volume, Miller recasts the narrative of reform and the investiture conflict — traditionally portrayed as an elitist struggle between church and state — in terms of a broad shift in conceptions of the nature of power and the holy. The volume brings together a wide selection of compelling documents — many of which have been largely unavailable — that allows students to place the investiture conflict within the wider context of social and political change in medieval Europe. Document headnotes, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and questions for consideration provide further pedagogical support.

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Table of Contents

    Foreword
    Preface
    A Note about the Texts and Translations
    List of Maps and Illustrations
    
PART ONE

Introduction: The Investiture Conflict in Western History
    Power and the Holy on the Eve of the Investiture Conflict
    Power and the Holy before the Millennium
    Movements for Reform
    The Investiture Conflict
    The Consequences of Reform
    The Contemporary Legacy
    
PART TWO

The Documents
  1. Movements for Reform
    Responses to the Carolingian Crisis
       1. Rodulphus Glaber, Description of the Peace and Truce of God, ca. 1036-1046
       2. Bishops of the Auvergne, Canons of the Council of Le Puy, 994
    

Monastic Reform
       3. William of Aquitaine, Foundation Charter of the Monastery of Cluny, 910
       4. Peter Damian, On the Life of Hermit Romuald of Ravenna, 1042
    

Clerical Celibacy and Simony
       5. Peter Damian, A Letter to Bishop Cunibert of Turin, 1064
       6. Andrew of Strumi, Description of the Preaching of Ariald in Milan, ca. 1075
       7. Arnulf of Milan, On the Patarenes, ca. 1072-1077
       8. Pope Gregory VII, A Letter to Adela, Countess of Flanders, November 10, 1076
       9. Humbert of Silva Candida, On Simony, 1058
       10. Peter Damian, On Simony, 1052
    

Canonical or "Free" Election
       11. Gerhard of Augsburg, How Ulrich Became Bishop of Augsburg, ca. 993, and Berno of Reichenau, How Ulrich Became Bishop of Augsburg, ca. 1030
       12. King Dagobert Invests Saint Omer, 11th Century
       13. Annales Romani, Description of the Synod of Sutri, ca. 1046, and Bonizo of Sutri, Description of the Synod of Sutri, ca. 1085
       14. Wibert, How Bruno of Toul Became Pope, 1054?
       15. Roman Synod, Papal Election Decree, 1059
    
  2. The Investiture Conflict
    The Combatants: Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII
       16. An Account of Henry's Minority, ca. 1106
       17. Pope Gregory VII, A Letter to Supporters in Lombardy, July 1, 1073
       18. Pope Gregory VII, Letter to Duke Rudolf of Swabia Concerning Henry IV, September 1, 1073
       19. Pope Gregory VII, The Dictatus papae, 1075
    

The First Confrontation
       20. Pope Gregory VII, Admonition to Henry, December 8, 1075
       21. Emperor Henry IV, Response to Gregory’s Admonition, Early 1076
    

Canossa
       22. Lampert of Hersfeld, Account of Canossa, ca. 1077
       23. Pope Gregory VII, A Letter to the German Princes, January 1077
    

Civil War
       24. Sigebert of Gembloux, An Antiking Is Elected, 1077
       25. Roman Synod, The Decrees against Lay Investiture, November 19, 1078 and March 7, 1080
       26. Pope Gregory VII, A Letter to Hermann of Metz, March 15, 1081
       27. Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, A Letter to Hugh Candidus, ca. 1084-1085
       28. Pope Gregory VII, Deathbed Testament, ca. 1085
    

Compromise
       29. Ivo, Bishop of Chartres, A Letter to the Apostolic Legate Hugh of Lyon, 1097
       30. Emperor Henry V and Pope Calixtus II, The Agreements of Worms, 1122
    
  3. The Consequences of Reform
    Lay Engagement with the Faith
       31. Baudri of Dol, The Preaching of Robert of Arbrissel, ca. 1118
       32. Walter Map, Description of the Waldensians, ca. 1180-1183
       33. Pope Innocent III, A Rule for the Third Order of the Humiliati, June 7, 1201
       34. Robert the Monk, The Calling of the First Crusade, ca. 1100-1125
       35. Bernard of Clairvaux, On the New Knighthood, ca. 1128–1136
    

The Clergy
       36. Martin and Anziverga, Gift to Their Son Adam, May 30, 1060, and John, Lease to Martin dal Danno, February 1156
       37. Eudes Rigaud, Archbishop of Rouen, Visitation to Inspect His Clergy, 1248
    

Bishops
       38. A Disputed Election at Auxerre, 1116
       39. William of Newburgh, Account of Thomas Becket’s Martyrdom, ca. 1190-1198
    

The Papacy
       40. Pope Adrian IV, A Papal Bull, 1156
       41. Papal Ceremonial in a Fresco from SS. Quattro Coronati, 13th Century
       42. Bernard of Clairvaux, On Papal Sovereignty, ca. 1148–1153
       43. Garcia, Criticism of the Papacy: The Relics of Saints Silver and Gold, ca. 1100?
    

Sanctity and Just Rulership
       44. Manegold of Lautenbach, On Tyranny, ca. 1085
       45. Guibert of Nogent, On Royal Powers, ca. 1125
       46. Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, The Canonization of Charlemagne, January 8, 1166
       47. The Coronation Rite of Reims, ca. 1230
       48. The Tomb of Edward I, Mid-14th Century
    
    Appendixes
       A Chronology of the Origins and Consequences of the Investiture Conflict (313-1201)
       Questions for Consideration
       Selected Bibliography
    Index

Maureen C. Miller

Maureen C. Miller is a Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and has also taught at George Mason University and Hamilton College. A specialist in medieval European history, she received her doctorate from Harvard University. She is the author of The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy (2000), which was awarded the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian History Studies, and of The Formation of a Medieval Church: Ecclesiastical Change in Verona, 950–1150 (1993), which was a winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association.