The Crisis of Church and State 1050-1300 (Mart: the Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)

A clear narrative that presents and interprets the major documents of the centuries-long struggle between kings and popes of medieval Europe over the separation of church and state. Few controversies have so indelibly influenced the course of western civilization. A reprint of the 1980 paperback reprint, originally published by Prentice-Hall in 1964.