‘Not Bishops’ Bailiffs but Lords of the Earth’: Charles the Bald and the Problem of Sovereignty
Janet L. Nelson
The Christian Church’s institutional autonomy, and wealth, were firmly grounded in the law authority of Later Roman Empire. sixteenth book Theodosian Code was an ecclesiastical Magna Carta. great popes fifth sixth centuries knew that Church existed within Empire, dependent like all other privileged bodies on imperial government for its sustenance.
Studies in church history. Subsidia