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Innocent III was one of the greatest popes, and his pontificate marks in many ways the high point of papal influence in Europe. These propositions have long seemed axiomatic, and they have defined studies of particular aspects of Innocent's life and times. In recent decades, important and original studies have transformed our understanding of heresy, the crusades, the origins of the mendicant orders, the formation of the papal state, the functioning of pastoral care, the maintenance of ecclesiastical discipline, and the creation and imposition of a Christian model of society, and ...

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