Part I Premodern Boundary Negotiations: Self-Distinctions of the Religious Sphere
Dynamics of Differentiation from Charlemagne to Dante. Medieval Christian Debates on Religion and Politics beyond the Model of a “Separation of Church and State”
Sita Steckel
Abstract
The writings of Dante Alighieri (*1265 – † 1321), one of the best-known medieval poets and political theorists, contain important discussions of the relationship between church and state. Such debates, which reflected the contemporary conflicts between European kings and Roman popes, were a recurring dynamic of Latin Christian Europe during the high medieval period. In the study of secularities, they have often been tied to a specific explanatory paradigm that links the ...
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