Conclusions
Benjamin Savill
Abstract This concluding chapter reflects on the longue durée picture of Anglo-papal documentary relations across early middle ages, stressing in particular absence a simple linear narrative, and importance rather experimental nature many English interactions with papacy: engaging on-and-off Rome as resource ideas, traditions, textual strategies over centuries. It further emphasises difference between later Anglo-Saxon later-/post-Carolingian Rome, closes some remarks what this study underlines about wider (substantially, petitioner-driven) dynamics medieval papacy.
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