Views During the Third Period (750-1517 A.D.) (3)

VIEWS DURING THE THIRD PERIOD (750-1517 A.D.) THE SUPREMACY OF THE POPE GREGORY THE GREAT (590-604) "Whatever may be thought of the popes of earlier times," says a certain writer, "they always had great interests in view: the care of oppressed religion, the conflict with heathenism, the spread of Christianity among the northern nations, the founding of an independent hierarchy. It belongs to the dignity of human existence to aim at and to execute something great; this tendency the popes kept...