The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273

The book 'The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273' contains the detailed political and ecclesiastical history of papacy in relationship with the chief states of southern and western Europe, in particular Germany, Italy, France, and the eastern empire. The author has discussed the expansion of the Latin and Catholic world and the development of the ecclesiastical system as these pertain to political history.Contents:
Introduction
The Saxon Kings of the Germans, and the Revival of the Roman Empire by Otto I
The German Empire at the Height of its Power. The later Saxon and early Salian Emperors
France and its Vassal States under the last Carolingians and the early Capetians
The Cluniac Reformation, and Italy in the Eleventh Century, The Investiture Contest
The Eastern Empire and theSeljukian Turks
The Early Crusades and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
The Monastic Movement and the Twelfth Century Renascence
Germany and Italy
Frederick Barbarossa and Alexander III. The renewed Conflict between Papacy and Empire
France, Normandy, and Anjou, and the Beginnings of the Greatness of the Capetian Monarchy
The Third Crusade and the Reign of Henry VI
Europe in the days of Innocent III
The Byzantine Empire in the Twelfth Century; the Fourth Crusade, and the Latin Empire in the East
Frederick II and the Papacy
France under Philip Augustus and St. Louis
The Universities and the Friars
The Last Crusades and the East in the Thirteenth Century
The Growth of Christian Spain
The Fall of the Hohenstaufen and the Great Interregnum