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Church and State: Politics and Religion in the Middle Ages

The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind

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Papal reforms and clerical independence

Mitchell Rocklin details Gregory VII's reforms: clerical celibacy and clergy appointments removed from secular control.

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