This volume deals with the problem of State and Church in the Middle Ages from a new angle. It not only shows how and why the medieval popes pursued a policy of world domination, but also discloses the ideas by which the papal monarchs were primarily influenced.

Walter Ullmann

1. Canonists and Canonistic Scholarship 2.The Canonists and Natural Law 3.The Pope and Natural Law 4. Papal Plenitude of Power: The Idea 5. World Monarchy 6.Pope and Emperor