Christus vincit, christus regnat, christus imperat: representações de igreja e império, legitimação em um só deus (séculos xi e xii)

Abstract

Our work intends to analyze the Church and Empire representations from the relationship involving the secular and spiritual powers in the 11th and 12th centuries. For this we considered the reform process and the Investiture Controversy between Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV. Taking methodological support at the Representations and Discourse Analysis, we extract from those relationships, that embrace our subject, the following problem: what’s the significance of Investiture Controversy for the process of construction e consolidation of the Church and Empire representations throughout 11th and in the early 12th century? With the purpose of comprehending the process of construction of representations before the reform era, we tried to draw it from the elaboration of the Church and Empire representations until that time. Afterwards, analyzing the documents produced during the conflict between the King and the Pope, we linked the reform process and the Investiture Controversy to those constructions. The study placed us in front of a set of images that allow a perception of a result for our early question: the Investiture Controversy meant more than a quarrel for the Episcopal appointments in the process of the ecclesiastical reform. The conflict signified a great battle of representations of world.