Misiune şi competiţie politică: Imperiul creştin şi Poporul Ales (II): succesorii lui Widukind şi neofiţii Noii Rome
Spiritual mission and political competition: the Christian Empire and the Chosen People (II): Widukind’s successors and the neophytes of the New Rome’s

Summary/Abstract: Social-economic and demographic changes in the Christian world at the decisive stage of ethnogenesis, amplified by the dynamics of the second wave of migration and the inability of secular institutional structures to ensure minimum security for the residents are circumstances that have placed the church in the position of the sole provider of political legitimacy and of solutions to restore order by disseminating and enforcing moral standards among the believers, by converting Slavic and Scandinavian populations, or by supporting some states invested with the task of defending Christianity through actions of an avant la lettre crusade. The need of the church in the process of being reorganized led to initiatives aiming at restoring the Empire in relation to consolidated centers of power on the eastern borders of Christianitas, and the conversion of the Slavs in the Balkans generated the appearance of centers of power interested in taking over the Byzantine imperial succession, in times of crisis that affected the New Rome. The intentions of the Holy See to transform the moral primacy conferred by the Petrine succession into a political and jurisdictional one, as well as the failures suffered by Byzantium in the double competition with Islamic actors and the crusaders, accelerated political instability, but favored deepening reflections on the functions and the meanings of the state and especially on its relationship with the people and its spiritual mission.

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