History A-Level
Papal authority and ambition
What Papal authority and ambition means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Pope Innocent III's 1198 encyclical Post miserabile sought to recapture Jerusalem, and he used plenary indulgences and direct papal taxation.
Topics that use Papal authority and ambition
- 1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204 – The Third and Fourth Crusades, 1187–1204 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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