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The Houses of Tuscany and of Pierleone in the Crisis of Rome in the Eleventh Century
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In the entire course of the Middle Ages no movement surpasses, in enduring importance and absorbing interest, that known as the Gregorian Reform, or, less correctly, the War of Investitures. It is the movement that had its most determined leader in Pope Gregory VII.
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