Profoundly Medieval
History of the Papacy Podcast

Profoundly Medieval

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 4, 202646 min

Pope Boniface VIII, King Philip IV of France, and Dante Alighieri all believed in Christendom, but they had radically different ideas about how spiritual and temporal power should fit together. From Unam Sanctam and the attack on Boniface at Anagni to Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio, and Monarchia, this episode explores the medieval fault line beneath the struggle between pope and king. None of these men were trying to create the modern separation of church and state; all three were profoundly medieval, fighting over what Christendom itself ought to be. #HistoryOfThePapacy #BonifaceVIII #Dante #PhilipTheFair #MedievalHistory #ChurchHistory #Papacy #Christendom #UnamSanctam...

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Welcome back to the History of the Papacy podcast, a podcast about the popes of Rome and Christian Church. Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the popes and Christianity.

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I am your host, Steve Guarra, and I thank you for joining me on this journey. Ah, Constantine, to what evil you gave birth, not by your conversion, but by the dowry that the first rich father had from you. Dante, Inferno, 19. Welcome back to the History of the Papacy podcast. I'm Steve, your host for this podcast about the history of the

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Pope's Roman Christian Church. Today we're wrapping up the trilogy we've been building. We started with the Guelphs and the Ghibilines, and we set the political situation of medieval Italy in the late 1200s 1300s. Then we spent an episode with Guido Guera, possibly a good guy put in a bad place.

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