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Chapter 26: The Holy Roman Emperor — World History 101

How Charlemagne’s coronation by Pope Leo III in 800 CE simultaneously created the medieval European monarchy, transformed the papacy into a kingmaker, and laid the political groundwork for the Holy Roman Empire that would rule Western Europe for the next thousand years.
Chapter 27: The Great Schism of 1054 — World History 101

The polite, paper-shuffling event that permanently split Christianity into Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox halves — and why a fight that looked minor at the time turned out to be one of the most durable institutional ruptures in history.
Chapter 28: The Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition — World History 101

How the same medieval Latin Christianity that produced the Nine Worthies and Carolingian learning also produced four centuries of religious warfare and a state-sponsored regime of torture and forced conversion — and what these institutions tell us about religion as a vehicle for political power.