Walter Ullmann
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LOCATION: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge, 1972–78; Professor of Ecclesiastical History, 1965–72. Author of The Growth of Papal Government in the Middle Ages and others.
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St. Leo IX ; feast day April 19) was the head of the medieval Latin church (1049–54), during whose reign the papacy became the focal point of western Europe and the great East-West Schism of 1054 became inevitable. Bruno of Egisheim was born into an aristocratic family. He was educated at Toul,…
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