GALLICANISM. The political dominance of the papacy during a period of the high Middle Ages was necessarily a temporary phenomenon. In central Europe the political fragmentation that followed Charlemagne's attempt at imperial restoration was not...

. Doctrine espousing the autonomy of the French church. French defiance of papal authority dates from Carolingian times, but it was during the confrontation (1296–1305) between Philip IV and Boniface VIII that a means of resisting the...

Gallicanism is the belief that popular civil authority—often represented by the monarchs' authority or the State's authority—over the Catholic Church is comparable to that of the Roman Pope's. Gallicanism is a rejection of Ultramontanism; it...

The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism and Political Ideology in Renaissance France. By Jotham Parsons. (Washington, D.C.:The Catholic University of America Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 322. $59.95.) Gallicanisni was self-invented, as early modern scholars began to construct its documented history as weE as...

The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism and Political Ideology in Renaissance France. By Jotham Parsons. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004. np. Jotham Parsons's erudite study of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Gallicanism emphasizes the humanist roots of this ideology...