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"""A Financial Times Best Summer Book"" ""A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- History"" ""Winner of the Hubert Morken Award, Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association"" ""Winner of the J David Greenstone Award, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association"" ""Honorable Mention for the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association"" ""Honorable Mention for the Robert L Jervis and Paul W Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association"" ""The origins of the modern European state are conventionally traced to the era between 1500 and 1800. Grzymała-Busse makes a convincing case that we should go several centuries back and look at the way that rivalries between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire and other trends framed the emergence of European states.""---Tony Barber, Financial Times ""Carefully crafted."" * Choice * ""Grzymała-Busse . . . foregrounds the medieval church as the primary actor in the state-building process. Her arguments rest on a masterly synthesis of pertinent secondary literature coupled with innovative statistical representations."" * Choice * ""[Sacred Foundations] offers a fresh and innovative perspective on the process of state formation in Europe. Even more notably, it places a significant emphasis on the pivotal role of religion in forming the very institutions that continue to shape our world today.""---Farah Adeed, Reading Religion ""One of my favorite books . . . Grzymala-Busse [sic] provides a clear argument with details that make the reader want to know more. This is all the more impressive considering the topic is largely unfamiliar to most audiences. It’s a great book for anyone interested in the history behind modern representative democracy.""---Justin Kempf, Democracy Paradox ""[A] good analysis of the Medieval church’s role in shaping European states, laws, and parliaments during the medieval and early modern periods.""---Angelo Silvestri, Journal of Church and State ""[C]ompelling. . . . As a subtle and persuasive argument that details the medieval roots of the modern state, Grzymała-Busse’s book deserves to be widely read and debated.""---Robert A. Yelle, Journal of the American Academy of Religion"

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Anna Grzymaa-Busse is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies at Stanford University, where she is also senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Her books include Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy (Princeton).

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