16 sentences with 'popes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word popes and other words derived from it.
• « By the mid-fifth century CE, popes claimed full authority over all other bishops, and at least some of those bishops (in Western Europe, anyway) looked to Rome for guidance. »
• « In later centuries, the mere fact that the early popes claimed such authority, and that some bishops acknowledged it, was cited as "proof" that the Roman papacy had always been the supreme doctrinal power in the Church as a whole. »
• « As noted above, there were serious debates about who or what Jesus was. For centuries, there could be no 'orthodoxy', i.e. 'correct belief', because there was no authority within the church (including the popes) who could impose a certain set of beliefs over rival interpretations. »
• « The popes were not only at the pinnacle of the western church, but often ruled as kings unto themselves, and always had complex relationships with other rulers. »
• « During the entire period of the early Middle Ages (from the end of the Western Roman Empire until the eleventh century), the popes were rarely recognised as the rulers of the Church outside Italy. »
• « Instead, this period was important in the longer history of institutional Christianity because many popes at least claimed authority over doctrine and organisation - centuries later, popes would look back to the claims of their predecessors as 'proof' that the papacy had always been in charge. »
• « Many other crusades followed; popes would continue to authorise large-scale official invasions of the Middle East until the late 13th century, and the efforts of Christian knights in Spain during the Reconquista continued the crusading tradition for centuries. »
• « Later crusades were often no more than politically motivated power grabs by popes, launched against political opponents of a given pope (i.e. fellow European Christians who happened to disagree with a pope). »
• « They were authorised by various popes not only to conquer and convert but to rule the peoples of the eastern Baltic and thus by the 13th century the Teutonic knights were in the process of conquering and ruling Prussia, parts of Estonia and a region of southeastern Finland and present-day Lithuania called Livonia. »
• « The cause was one of the most peculiar episodes in late medieval European history: the "Babylonian Captivity" of the popes in the 14th century. »
• « The term originally referred to the biblical story of the enslavement of the Jews by the Babylonian Empire in the 6th century BC, but the Babylonian Captivity of the late Middle Ages refers instead to the period during which the popes no longer lived in their traditional residence in Rome. »
• « Because of the sheer geographical distance between Rome and the kingdoms of Europe, the popes did not exercise much practical authority over the various national churches, and the senior ecclesiastics of the European kingdoms tended to be more closely associated with their respective kings than with Rome. »
• « An unexpected "benefit" for Italy was actually the Babylonian captivity and the Great Western Schism: because the authority of the popes was so limited, Italian cities found it easy to operate with little papal interference, and powerful Italian families often intervened directly in the election of popes when it suited them. »
• « The popes reasserted their control of the papal states in central Italy, in some cases (such as those of Julius II, r. 1503 - 1513) personally going to the battlefield to lead troops against the armies of both foreign invaders and rival Italians. »
• « In short, the popes after the end of the Great Western Schism were often much more focused on behaving as members of the popoli grossi (rich people), striving for power and honour and patronising great works of art and architecture, rather than being concerned with the spiritual authority of the Church to the laity. »
• « At the same time, elite ecclesiastics (including the popes themselves) continued to live like princes. »