The English Church and the Papacy: From the Conquest to the Reign of John » (REV)

Since this book was first published in 1931 the English church in the eleventh and twelfth centuries has been studied in depth, yet Z. N. Brooke's The English Church and the Papacy, now reissued with a new introduction by C. N. L. Brooke, remains the indispensable point from which all expeditions over this territory begin. The author set out first to determine what the law of the English Church was, and to seek the books on which it was based; then to draw out the consequences of what he had discovered in a general survey of the relations of England and Rome. The crisp, clear judgements on themes and characters in the second half are still worth pondering, for all the nuances that have been added since.

Foreword; Preface; Introduction;

1. Ecclesia Anglicana;
2. The Western Church in the eleventh century;
3. The law of the Western Church;

Part I. The Law of the Church in England:
4. The method of this enquiry;
5. Lanfranc's collection;
6. The twelfth-century collections;
7. Medieval libraries and contemporary writers;

Part II. The Relations of England with the Papacy:
8. Lanfranc;
9. William the Conqueror: the traditional outlook;
10. St Anselm: the rise of a papal party;
11. Henry I: the maintenance of royal control;
12. Stephen: the 'freedom of the Church';
13. Henry II and Thomas Becket;
14. Epilogue: from the death of Becket to Magna Carta; Appendix; Index.