Corpus Christianum in die Middeleeue

Abstract

The origin and development of the idea of Christianity as a single society in the Roman Empire under the leadership of the state or emperor and the Church or pope is investigated. The idea developed differently in the East and the West. In the East it developed into Caeseropapism and in the West, although linked to a notion of theocracy, it developed into ecclesiocracy or papalcracy: both being caricatures.