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Boniface VIII

noun

Pope who declared that Catholic princes are subject to the pope in temporal as well as in theological matters (1235-1303). Synonym: Benedetto Caetani.

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... we bear in mind some essential features of the Catholic system of thought, we miss the key to that ecclesiastical statesmanship which dominates the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The programme of the great Popes, from Gregory VII to Boniface VIII, must appear a tissue of absurdities, of preposterous ambitions and indefensible actions, unless it is studied in relation to a theology as far remote from primitive Christianity as from the cults ...

— Medieval Europe • H. W. C. Davis

... ANATOMICAL STUDIES. Medieval belief in the unlawfulness of meddling with the bodies of the dead Dissection objected to on the ground that "the Church abhors the shedding of blood" The decree of Boniface VIII and its results ...

— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

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