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Walter Ullmann, A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages, (London, 1972)
maweisse
Feb 26, 2009 12:25
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Apparently the papacy embodied an idea of law emanating from the divine, of which the papacy was an organ and institution. Individual popes were less important than the institution and inherent idea. This process grew fromthe 4th century to the 13th, when focus on the individual, not the institution caused the weakening of the idea, just as it was at its strongest, making the idea a reality. Amazingly self-aware, the early medieval papacy. I sure thought this self awareness came with Gregory VII- Innocent III, not just culminating then...
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