23. Monks and Missionaries - The Papacy's Expansion North

From Rome's ancient center, a new papal strategy emerges through monastic missionaries dispatched to Europe's pagan frontiers. This episode follows how Pope Gregory the Great's vision of northern evangelization, tensions between Irish and Roman Christian models, and Boniface's systematic organization of Germanic churches fundamentally reoriented papal priorities. The culminating alliance with the Franks, marked by Pope Stephen II's historic Alpine crossing, transformed the papacy from Mediterranean institution to a power increasingly looking north for its future.


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