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Author Whalen, Brett Edward.

Title The Two Powers : the Papacy, the Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (323 pages)
Series The Middle Ages Ser
Middle Ages Ser
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; Prelude. The Legate; PART I. GREGORY IX; Chapter 1. A Contested Vow; Chapter 2. Reforming the Peace; Chapter 3. The Widening Gyre; Chapter 4. Christendom in Crisis; Interlude. The Vacancy; PART II. INNOCENT IV; Chapter 5. A New Hope; Chapter 6. The Council; Chapter 7. Christendom at War; Chapter 8. The Price of Victory; Postlude. The Afterworld; Epilogue; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Acknowledgments
Summary Covering decades that included the last major crusades, the birth of the Inquisition, and the unexpected invasion of the Mongols, The Two Powers shows how Popes Gregory and Innocent's battles with Emperor Frederick shaped the political circumstances of the thirteenth-century papacy and its role in the public life of medieval Christendom
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1194-1250.
Gregory IX, Pope, approximately 1170-1241.
Innocent IV, Pope, approximately 1200-1254.
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1194-1250.
Gregory IX, Pope, approximately 1170-1241.
Innocent IV, Pope, approximately 1200-1254.
Church and state -- Holy Roman Empire -- History -- To 1500
Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Papacy -- History -- To 1309.
Popes -- Temporal power -- History -- To 1500
Sovereignty -- History -- To 1500
Church and state.
Church history -- Middle Ages.
HISTORY / Medieval
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Papacy.
Popes -- Temporal power.
Sovereignty.
Holy Roman Empire -- History -- Frederick II, 1215-1250.
Europe -- Holy Roman Empire.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812296125
9780812296129