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Beginning with the conversion of Constantine in 312 and the establishment of the Christian Empire, the book continues through the Middle Ages up to the publication of Gratian's Decretum, the great, systematic book of Church law which transformed the idea of tradition into legal concepts. Throughout this period the hierarchy was called upon to deal with such fundamental questions as the nature of tradition and the extent of its authority, the infallibility of the pope, and the proper role of the laity in defining dogma.

Originally published in 1969.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. vii-xii
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. pp. xv-2
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  1. 1. Tradition as a Safeguard of Cohesion
  2. pp. 3-34
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  1. Book I. Tradition as a Warrant of Schism: The Church in the Later Roman Empire
  1. Part I. Multiple Centers of Cohesion
  2. pp. 37-38
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  1. 2. Paradoxes of Unity
  2. pp. 39-74
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  1. Part II. The "Janus Complex" in Roman Thought
  2. pp. 75-76
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  1. 3. The Conflict of Tradition and Discretion
  2. pp. 77-110
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  1. 4. The Byzantine Papacy: Tradition Reaffirmed
  2. pp. 111-152
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  1. Part III. Beginning a New Era
  2. pp. 153-154
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  1. 5. The Eighth-Century Crisis: Papal Reassertion and Frankish Dissent
  2. pp. 155-167
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  1. 6. Confrontation and Disengagement: Tradition and Political Groupings in the Iconoclastic Dispute
  2. pp. 168-194
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  1. 7. Summary: The Progress of Transvaluation
  2. pp. 195-202
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  1. Book II. Tradition Transvaluated: Tradition, Discretion, and Political Groupings in the West from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century
  1. 8. The New Political Order
  2. pp. 205-210
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  1. Part I. The Ninth and Tenth Centuries: Tradition and Official Spontaneity
  2. pp. 211-212
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  1. 9. The Popes and the Franks
  2. pp. 213-253
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  1. 10. The Tenth Century: Hardening the Lines
  2. pp. 254-264
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  1. Part II. The Investiture Controversy: A Test of Accountability
  2. pp. 265-268
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  1. 11. Tradition Discarded: The Gregorians
  2. pp. 269-291
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  1. 12. Tradition: Watchword of Resistance
  2. pp. 292-317
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  1. 13. Conflict Among the Reformers
  2. pp. 318-341
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  1. 14. Results of the Controversy
  2. pp. 342-348
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  1. 15. Summary: From Law to Jurisprudence
  2. pp. 349-360
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  1. Appendices
  1. Appendix A. Second Thoughts on the Attitudes of Popes Nicholas I and John VIII Toward Temporal Government
  2. pp. 363-372
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  1. Appendix B. Saxon Germany and the Myth of the Sacerdotal King
  2. pp. 373-389
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  1. Appendix C. The Gregorian Reformers' View of Temporal Government
  2. pp. 390-408
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 409-444
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 445-458
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