Ecclesiology and Consitutional Thought, 1150-1650

FAIN: FA-11814-77

Brian Tierney
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14850-2820)

To explain the emergency of western constitutionalism. PI feels that a part of the explanation must lie in the peculiar relationship between church and state in the Middle Ages, the conflicts between them and. the ways in which they influenced each other. PI's interpretation of medieval and early modern constitutionalism would give equal emphasis to ecclesiology and to secular constitutional thought.