Following the creation of the Papal States via the Donation of Pepin, popes become temporal rulers, and papal rhetoric of absolute power increased with the strategic inclusion of yet more forgeries and declarations.
@OverlySarcasticProductions goes into more detail on Frederick II and the papacy in this video: hthttps://youtu.be/4BFsADb5_vY
See my Medium blog for the introduction to my book, in progress, Dangerous Ideas, from which the information in this episode is taken: https://bit.ly/3VH6K7B
My first book, Manifest Insanity, on the evolution of Judeo-Christianity, published under my previous pseudonym: https://amzn.to/42x5yWw
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Special thanks to my artistic collaborator Jon Hammond for the Charlemagne coronation graphic. You can find Jon’s work at: https://www.facebook.com/Jonhammondart/ & https://www.facebook.com/TheFallingStarC
Video chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:10 Donation of Pepin
1:47 Acts of Sylvester
4:35 Leo & Charlemagne
5:56 Peak Papal Propaganda
6:43 Pseudo-Isidore False Decretals
8:17 Constitutum Constantini
9:45 Donation of Constantine
11:12 Universal Papal Monarchy & Gregorian Reforms
17:10 Frederick II standoff with the papacy
19:20 Mythbusting papal bluster
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