The Christian Commonwealth (i) Regnum vs. Sacerdotium—the Struggle for Control

By the latter half of the nineteenth century the name “Canossa” had long since become a piece of shorthand, symbolizing for Germans of strongly nationalistic bent nothing other than the abject humiliation of a German emperor and, indeed, of the German national spirit at the arrogant hands of a forei...

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Published inThe Mortgage of the Past p. 15
Main Author Oakley, Francis
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Yale University Press 24.04.2012
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Applied sociology
Behavioral sciences
Bishops
Christianity
Churches
Clergy
Cultural anthropology
Cultural customs
Divine attributes
Divinity
Doctrinal theology
Emperors
Government
Government officials
Heads of state
Investitures
Kings
Kingship
Monarchism
Monarchs
Monarchy
Political regimes
Political science
Political systems
Popes
Practical theology
Religion
Rites of passage
Rituals
Sociology
Sociology of religion
Spiritual belief systems
Spiritual leaders
Systematic theology
Theology
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Summary:By the latter half of the nineteenth century the name “Canossa” had long since become a piece of shorthand, symbolizing for Germans of strongly nationalistic bent nothing other than the abject humiliation of a German emperor and, indeed, of the German national spirit at the arrogant hands of a foreign religious potentate. When in May 1872, then, Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the newly and proudly unified GermanReich,proclaimed to the Reichstag that “we will not go to Canossa,” it seemed no more than appropriate that he should do so when launching the so-called May laws aimed at asserting
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