BIOL 040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Investiture Controversy, Pagus, Translatio Imperii
31 Jul 2020
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The alliance between the popes and the frankish kings did not only provided benefits for. Rome but also threatened the authonomy of the church. Tension between the judaeo-christian and graeco-roman tradition, the west once again shifted towards graeco-roman end to the spectrum. Clergy monopolized schooling ( knowledge and written = latin) The clergy"s cooperation was necessary for the administration. The alliance between the frankish kings and the pope rested on a precarious balance of power=> they both supported each other"s actions. This lead to the theory of the two swords ( introduced by pop gelasius i in 494) Later in 1070, the pope claim the full separation of church and state ( this metaphor took all its matter then because they said that the christ had left two swords or keys on earth. The conquest of the larger part of the west by charlemagne disrupted the balance of power.
