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Patriarch and Papacy: The Church and the Call to Crusade

Patriarch and Papacy: The Church and the Call to Crusade
Sep 23, 2023 · 16m 7s

The period of recovery from the collapse of the Carolingian Empire brought about the ordering of society from the lowliest serf to the kings of western Afro-Eurasia. Popes wanted to...

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The period of recovery from the collapse of the Carolingian Empire brought about the ordering of society from the lowliest serf to the kings of western Afro-Eurasia. Popes wanted to reform the church and used their authority to challenge the secular rulers of European kingdoms. Those same rulers worked to create stability by integrating their warrior culture with Christian beliefs, both to justify and to restrain violence. The Byzantine emperor’s call to the pope for aid leaned on all these complex developments and helped to launch the Crusades, a new chapter in the history of conflict fueled by religion.

All images referenced in this podcast can be found at https://openstax.org/books/world-history-volume-1/pages/13-3-patriarch-and-papacy-the-church-and-the-call-to-crusade

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Podcast produced by Miranda Casturo as a Creative Common Sense production.
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