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THE CITY OF GOD - MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THOUGHT

Question 1: How ever you might want to define the Middle Ages (and there are plenty of definitions), one core defining element would be the integration of two powers in the West - the (Catholic) Church and the worldly rulers who sought its sanction. In the East, the Roman Empire continued, of course, until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. This tripartite constellation - a fragmented West held together by the Church, a declining Eastern Roman Empire, and comparatively progressive Muslim states on the Southern Rim and in Spain - is the dominating state of affairs during the Middle Ages.