Pope Gregory and King Henry IV about Church versus State

Primary Source Project for Chapter Eight

Citations

"Dictatus Papae by Pope Gregory VII (1075)." In Brian A. Pavlac. A Concise History of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities, 182-183. Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Originally in "45. Gregory VII’s Conception of the Papal Authority." In A Source Book of Medieval History: Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance, edited by Frederick Austin Ogg, 262–264. New York: American Book Company, 1907.
Also here, and here, and here. In Latin here.

"Letter to Pope Gregory VII by King Henry (March 1076)." In Brian A. Pavlac. A Concise History of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities, 183. Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Originally in "75. The Deposition of Gregory VII by Henry IV, January 24, 1076." In A Source Book for Medieval History: Selected Documents Illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age, edited by Oliver J. Thatcher and Edgar H. McNeal, 151–152. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905.
Collection available here. In Latin here.

 

Further Links and materials for study

Revisting Dictatus Papae. <https://unamsanctamcatholicam.com/2022/07/02/revisiting-dictatus-papae/l>.

Review of book about Gregory VII. <http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/82>.

Sculpture of Henry IV at Canossa. <http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/232147>.

 

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