Church History, March 1st, 2001
Pope Innocent III and His World. Edited by John C. Moore. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999. xx + 389 pp. $86.95 cloth.
More than any Roman pontiff apart perhaps from Gregory VII, Innocent III had an immediate, profound, and lasting impact on the church and society of his time. Often seen as a great innovator, theologian, and canon lawyer, Innocent, however, was a contentious figure in his own time and remains so today. The tremendous pastoral leader who convened one of the church's most important councils (the Fourth Lateran in 1215), the sponsor of the Franciscan Order, the pontiff who sough...
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