... church and state. Also the papacy reach a high point of corruption during this period when the Holy See was sold. The papacy for the first time shows its military religious power by arranging the crusades, where soldiers were sent to take back Jerusalem and the holy land from the Muslims. The papacy was also weakened and discredited by its concentration on ... political control rather than spiritual matters, and the papacy fell increasingly under French influence. The popes were forced to live in Avignon in the south of France under the domination of ... several French monarchs. When t...

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