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Early Medieval Papacy

You're Dead to Me

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Charlemagne and the Mosaic

There's a long backstory where Charlemagne's grandfather and his father, Pippin, were involved with the Pope. The mosaic is one of my favorite things of this whole time period. After Charlemagne dies, things do start to go downhill for the Carolinjian Empire. You start to see all these new pressures in medieval Europe on invasions from the outside.

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