Bringing the Church Back In

Ecclesiastical Influences on the Rise of Europe

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ID7974345
AuthorsJørgen Møller (0000-0002-9374-9082, Aarhus University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume12
Issue02
Pages213-226
Publication date2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitics and Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1755-0491 • E-ISSN: 1755-0483
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1755048318000822
OpenAlexW2908671635
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited48

Recently, political scientists and economists have redoubled their attempts to understand the “Rise of Europe.” However, the role of the Catholic Church has been curiously ignored in most of this new research. The medieval West was shot through with Catholic values and institutions, and only by factoring in the Church can we understand the peculiar European development from the high Middle Ages onward. More particularly, the 11th century “crisis of church and state” set in train a series of developments that were crucial for the Rise of Europe. The Church was the main locale in which the development of representation, consent, and early bureaucratic institutions took place, and it contributed to creating, integrating, and maintaining the European multistate system. This note demonstrates that current scholarship has failed to factor in ecclesiastical influences and it shows how these gaps can be filled by a more careful reading of prior historical scholarship

Political science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · History · Religion and Society Interactions

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