Early Medieval Papacy
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Is the Papacy a Dangerous Office?
This sounds like what the pope should ring up a hotline and go, have you been bludgeoned by a workmate? You know, why not call? No, we're no fi. It is a dangerous job, I think. And we get the kind of fizzling out of the Carolingian Empire,. Charles III dies and the empire just splinters into small kingdoms. Popes are now vulnerable to violence. But I mean, the papacy is a political office. Even if some monasteries are getting plundered by Vikings, there's still pilgrims going to Rome. The pope is seen as the final court of appeals in the church. There's an important
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