Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword vii
3. Contents xiii
4. Abbreviations xv
5. Chapter 1. Tradition as a Safeguard of Cohesion 1
6. Book I. Tradition as Warrant of Schism: The Church in the Later Roman Empire
7. Part I. Multiple Centers of Cohesion
8. Chapter 2. Paradoxes of Unity 37
9. Part II. The "Janus Complex" in Roman Thought
10. Chapter 3. The Conflict of Tradition and Discretion 77
11. Chapter 4. The Byzantine Papacy: Tradition Reaffirmed 111
12. Part III. Beginning a New Era
13. Chapter 5. The Eighth-Century Crisis: Papal Reassertion and Frankish Dissent 155
14. Chapter 6. Confrontation and Disengagement: Tradition and Political Groupings in the Iconoclastic Dispute 168
15. Chapter 7. Summary: The Progress of Transvaluation 195
16. Book II. Tradition Transvaluated: Tradition, Discretion, and Political Groupings in the West from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century
17. Chapter 8. The New Political Order 205
18. Part I. The Ninth and Tenth Centuries: Tradition and Official Spontaneity
19. Chapter 9. The Popes and the Franks 213
20. Chapter 10. The Tenth Century: Hardening the Lines 254
21. Part II. The Investiture Controversy: A Test of Accountability
22. Chapter 11. Tradition Discarded: The Gregorians 269
23. Chapter 12. Tradition: Watchword of Resistance 292
24. Chapter 13. Conflict Among the Reformers 318
25. Chapter 14. Results of the Controversy 342
26. Chapter 15. Summary: From Law to Jurisprudence 349
27. Appendices
28. Appendix A. Second Thoughts on the Attitudes of Popes Nicholas I and John VIII Toward Temporal Government 363
29. Appendix B. Saxon Germany and the Myth of the Sacerdotal King 373
30. Appendix C. The Gregorian Reformers' View of Temporal Government 390
31. Bibliography 409
32. Index 445