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But dominant are the major clashes between secular and spiritual authority: Both the papacy and the Western Church emerged as stronger institutions from this struggle, largely owing to Alexander's leadership and resilience: Editor s Bio Peter D. Reviews 'This book is a must have for anyone interested in Alexander III, as it is the only comprehensive scholarly account of his pontificate. Each essay is well-written, and all of them bring new or neglected information to the scholarly discussion, updating the status of modern scholarship in Alexander III.
This volume attempts, and succeeds in, a fresh investigation of what have been the traditional areas of inquiry The range of the other papers is wide indeed, covering the papal schism Alessandria and the Lombard League All these papers merit close study. The single homemaker provides a useful contribution to the history of singleness and to our understanding of the uses of material goods in the processes of homemaking.
The Bookshelf application offers access: Johrendt, on the other hand, demonstrates that modern categories of "church and state" have limited explanatory power when discussing the actions of imperial bishops and, more importantly, local churches, during the schism Following these chapters, Edward Coleman argues that the founding of the city of Alessandria, though it has become a classic symbol of the Lombard League's alliance with Alexander against Frederick Barbarossa, tells us much more about the immediate concerns of the Lombard towns.
Not only did Alessandria grow more gradually than has sometimes been assumed, but the Lombard sources which describe it hardly mention the schism The next three chapters move from the Patrimony of St. Peter in central Italy, to France and then Spain. Brenda Bolton considers Alexander's relations with the papal patrimony, focusing especially on the Ciociaria, to argue that far from being an absentee lord of the lands of St. Peter, Alexander used them as a kind of laboratory for his policies.
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In one of the most unambiguously positive judgments on the pope in this volume, Bolton presents the Ciociaria as a place where "he displayed discretion and a paternal solicitude in response to matters which ranged from the recovery of strategic territory or dispute settlement to clerical morals and the spiritual welfare of lepers" Myriam Soria, writing about France, also lays great emphasis on the tension between the universalizing pretentions of the papacy and its activities at the local level. The pope balanced his use of the bishops as instruments of centralization with the granting of privileges to secular reasoning, which resulted in the paradox of "a centralizing pope who nonetheless favored the localization of the French Church" Damian Smith carefully reads papal documents relating to Spain, focusing largely on relations between the provinces and the competition for privileges between sees like Toledo, Compostela, and Braga.
Although Smith argues that papal policy toward Spain was complex, he argues convincingly that, whatever Alexander's particular successes or failures were, "there had simply never been so much papal government before" Chapters 8 and 9 turn to Alexander's dealings with England; traditional accounts have perhaps understandably given top billing to the Becket Controversy, during which Alexander famously exercised great caution.
Guernes de Pont-Ste-Maxence and the Court of Alexander III," Katherine Christensen closely reads a short passage from Guernes's poem on Becket to argue in admittedly speculative fashion that Alexander may have fretted more about granting Becket the pallium than most English sources for the episode admitted. This fits into the volume's continuing portrait of Alexander as careful and deliberate rather than ideological.
Nicholas Vincent then gives a masterful reinterpretation of late twelfth-century diplomacy between Rome and the Angevin kings of England. Re-reading chronicles, letters, and charters, Vincent reminds us that the role of the kings' continental possessions has been neglected in older scholarship. Moreover, Henry II continued to negotiate and compromise with Alexander for seven years after Avranches, and managed to steer ecclesiastical affairs in directions that could benefit both parties.
This is followed by three chapters on the reach of the papacy into the eastern Mediterranean. Jonathan Harris and Dmitri Tolstoy reconsider the evidence for Alexander's interactions with Byzantium, again making excellent use of Boso, and show that the eastern emperors saw the pope as simply part of a larger policy regarding Italy.