This is primarily a collection of original documents translated where necessary, covering the subject of church and state from the time of the Emperor Trajan to the Czechoslovak. Law of 1949. It is divided into eight sections: The Roman Empire and the Dark Ages, The Gregorian Reformation, The Feudal Middle Ages, The Conciliar Period and The Age of Discovery, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, The Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment, The Age of Liberalism and Capitalism, The Age of Socialism and Totalitarianism.