The Papacy and the Greeks (1122-1153) (Part II)

If in our previous section, we attempted to show how the Papacy discovered the possibilities which the East-West alliance possessed with regard to the healing of the schism, this final section will indicate how the East-West alliance became pregnant with menace for the Roman Church and thus destructive of all hopes for a reconciliation between Rome and Constantinople. Indeed, as we shall show, all plans for church union, on either side, now disappear into a welter of conflicting ambitions whose focus was southern Italy and the Norman Kingdom of Roger II

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