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First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-319) and index. |
| Contents |
Exceptionalism. Three treaties about power and money changed Europe ; Think of popes and kings as self-interested ; Short-term decisions, lasting consequences ; Europe: unexpected exceptionalism ; Europe's unique feature -- Two swords, one church. Iconoclasm, the papal states, and escape from Constantinople ; The birth of papal nepotism ; Papal maneuvers to increase political power ; The struggle over the increase of bishops ; The pope's war with the Holy Roman Emperor -- The concordat game. The terms of the concordats ; The process of bishop selection before the concordats ; The concordat game ; Key implications of the concordat game -- Secularism surges. The game's third outcome: Avignon and rebellion against the church ; The church's changing use of punishment ; The secularization of bishops ; The wealth of dioceses ; Wealth and secularization of bishops: a first test ; Assessing the expected costs of defying the church ; Wealthy sees for secular bishops and poor sees for religious bishops -- The road to prosperity. Maneuvers to influence economic growth ; Four Lateran Councils: combating secular economic growth ; Secular maneuvers for growth ; Growth, crusades, and the commercial revolution -- The road to Papal serfdom and liberation. Gamble on bishops, gamble on vacant sees ; Breaking from the church: French wealth and the Avignon papacy ; Testing when France was ready to rebel ; The church contemplates reform; Protestants rebel ; Art and the rise of secularism -- The birth of states, the birthing of representative democracy. The concordat: a step toward modern sovereignty ; War and accountability ; War and state building ; The concordats and accountable states ; Secularism, wealth, and parliaments ; Rubber stamps or real parliaments ; Did parliaments help or hurt monarchs? -- Today. The altered tides of power ; The concordats and today's quality of life ; Innovation and discovery ; Insights for today. |
| Summary |
"This book solves one of the great puzzles of history: why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world? Political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita explains the consolidation of power in the West through a single, little noticed event: the 1132 Concordat of Worms. Bueno de Mesquita makes a deeply researched and persuasive case that the Concordat changed the terms of competition between churches and nation-states, incentivizing economic growth and benefiting citizens over kings and popes. In the centuries since, those countries that have had similar arrangements have been consistently better off than those that did not"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Civilization, Western -- Christian influences.
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Church and state -- Europe, Western -- History.
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Exceptionalism -- Europe, Western -- History.
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Catholic Church. Treaties, etc. Holy Roman Empire, 1122 September 23.
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Église et État (CaQQLa)201-0010451 -- Europe de l'Ouest (CaQQLa)201-0421394 -- Histoire. (CaQQLa)201-0378888 |
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Exceptionnalisme (CaQQLa)000266531 -- Europe de l'Ouest (CaQQLa)201-0421394 -- Histoire. (CaQQLa)201-0378888 |
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RELIGION / Christianity / General.
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Church and state. (OCoLC)fst00860509
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Civilization, Western -- Christian influences.
(OCoLC)fst00863143
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Exceptionalism. (OCoLC)fst01748515
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Western Europe. (OCoLC)fst01272478 |
| Genre |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781541768758 (hardcover) : $30.00 |
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1541768752 (hardcover) |
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