The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century.

Over some sixty years, the published work of Gerd Tellenbach has been primarily in the two closely related areas of the development and functioning of the medieval monastic order and the evolution of the German aristocracy. Like his profoundly influential first book of 1936, Libertas. Kirche und Weltordnung im Zeitalter des Investiturstreites, his retractatio of this subject which was published in 1988 has promptly appeared in an admirable English version as The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century, trans. Timothy Reuter (Cambridge: U.P., 1993; pp. xix + 403. [pounds]55; pb. [pounds]14.95). In it, Tellenbach reaffirms the leading theses of his …