The Church and the Multistate System
Jørgen Møller|Jonathan Stavnskær Doucette
Abstract This chapter shifts attention to the multistate system. It argues that European system was set in train when fusion of lay and religious authority came an end eleventh twelfth centuries. The first shows how around ad 1000 everything favoured opposite: hegemony or empire. next this changed due conflict church state general Catholic Church’s persistent interest avoiding one secular polity outmatched others particular. is most spectacularly illustrated by late medieval papacy denounced old notion, going back Rome but revived popes Carolingians ninth century, other rulers were subordinated Western (German) Emperor. In place venerable idea, churchmen formulated spread exact opposite doctrine: ‘the king emperor within his own realm’ (Rex regno suo imperator). Beginning with Gregory VII, they also provided support new states arising on periphery Latin West balance older closer—and more threatening––to Papal Rome. where we find origins modern notion equality international relations. ends tracing these developments up until Reformation.
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