... the papacy. The papacy went through a lot of changes during the medieval period. It gradually gained secular authority. For a time the Pope became a powerful lay prince as well as an ecclesiastical ruler when he gain more land through donations. He tried to establish secular as well as spiritual supremacy over the rulers. This intermingling of powers was a determining condition in the ... ...

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