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Triumphs and Tragedies – 12

After two hundred years of a very dark time, the church struggles into reform. The German kings prompt the reform by appointing good popes, but it backfires when the popes clash with the kings over the question of who appoints the bishops, priests and abbots. Popes Leo IX and Gregory VII assert papal power and by the end of the century the church is free from secular control.
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