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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Ian Frazier talks in great detail about the Agency system and Crazy HorseBy Chris MillerThis book started well; and set out a fair amount of Native American history. In Great Plains; Ian Frazier talks in great detail about the Agency system and Crazy Horse. It awoke in me a curiosity about the battles fought between the U.S. Army and the many bands of Indians populating the West in the 19th century. I would have preferred more content on the current residents of the 'fly-over' land that Great Plains encapsulates. Set next to Larry McMurtry's Roads; I think I prefer the McMurtry pace and the lessons McMurtry learns not just about the places he visits; but the changes in himself.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Elegiac Writing about the past and presentBy CuevasThis book was written in the midst of the Reagan administration; and in the waning years of the oil boom that brought my family to North Dakota around the same time. In some way; it is the story of the Plains from a distant time; in the waning of the early twentieth century and the memories of the nineteenth; in the shadow of nuclear war; at the end of the last big boom of the twentieth century. And yet; the writing remains as crisp as ever; and his vision of the great drying of the west; of feedlots; of abandonment and boom and bust; remains as relevant as ever.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. great plainsBy Josephine BriggsI liked this book very much. It is complicated; interesting; informative and a good study of the 10 plains state and which part of them contains the actual plains. The book is like a large tapestry with many different elements woven in. There is the geography of the land; the plants; animals; people plus much more. This is also a book of joie d' vivre; love of life; a French impressionist painting of the beauty and joy of being alive;the joy of small incidental occurances too easily forgotten. Ian Frazier also uses stream of conscience as different scenes; places and people flash before his eyes. He then goes back in history to the lifestyle of the Indians before the white men came to the plains and how when they did come how riciculous the red men thought the white mens ways and customs were. Then he comes back to today and what is happening now. So; back and forth; back and forth from history to present. Mr Frazier tells of how the plains were becoming settled and civilized and of the colorful characters who lived and helped shape this area into what it would become. Crazy Horse was a favorite and he also liked George Custer and believed Custer also loved this wide open land; some parts rolling; some like a rumpled bed and other areas as flat as a board which makes heaven and earth seem to come together. I believe Mr Frazier loves this wide open country because he spent two years living here and writing about it and driving back and forth crossing much. But he writes back and forth from past history to present. But the book ends concerning future times and is concerned with nuclear missal sites. Tomorrow land
