Pope Innocent II (1130-43): The World vs the City (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West)

The pontificate of Innocent II (1130-1143) has long been recognized as a watershed in the history of the papacy, marking the transition from the age of reform to the so-called papal monarchy, when an earlier generation of idealistic reformers gave way to hard-headed pragmatists intent on securing worldly power for the Church. Whilst such a conception may be a cliché its effect has been to concentrate scholarship more on the schism of 1130 and its effects than on Innocent II himself. This volume puts Innocent at the centre, bringing together the authorities in the field to give an overarching view of his pontificate, which was very important in terms of the internationalization of the papacy, the internal development of the Roman Curia, the integrity of the papal state and the governance of the local church, as well as vital to the development of the Kingdom of Sicily and the Empire. Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Preface 10 Contributors 11 Abbreviations 12 List of figures 17 Innocent II: A very short introduction 18 1 Two popes: The city vs the world 22 2 Innocent II and the Empire 44 3 Sicut ex scriptis vestris accepimus : Innocent II and the insulae Britanniae et Hiberniae 86 4 Innocent II and Capetian France 124 5 From Aquitaine to Provence: The struggle for influence during the schism of 1130 169 6 Innocent II and the kingdom of Sicily 189 7 The men who would be kings: Innocent II and Spain 198 8 Struggling for ecclesiastical independence in the North 222 9 The transmission of the councils from 1130 to 1139 243 10 Jura sua unicuique tribuat : Innocent II and the advance of the learned laws 289 11 The livery of loyalty: Innocent II and the pallium 328 12 Innocent II and the liturgy 343 13 Patronage of art and architecture 369 Index 406