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Jane Sayers
ASIN: B016A9U18A
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 243

Innocent III (elected 1198, died 1216) has long been thought the greatest pope of the high Middle Ages.He launched the Fourth Crusade, sent an army against the Albigensians, and convened the Fourth Lateran Council. In his struggle with the most powerful monarchs of western Europe to assert the supremacy of the spiritual over the temporal power, he excommunicated King John, placed England under an interdict, forced Philip Augustus of France to take back the wife he had repudiated, and had the Emperor Otto IV deposed.But how solid is his reputation? To what extent was he personally responsible for the events of his reign? How far did he influence the massive changes of his time — the claim of the papacy to intervene in European affairs, and to act as universal arbiter and lawgiver? Were the great challenges that he met new? Was it particular circumstances that made it possible for him to ...
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4 stars from 8 ratings