For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

The (i) of medieval papal power was the pontificate of Innocent III, whose immense personal prestige cowed monarchs from the powerful Philip II “Augustus” of France to the (ii) John of England, who earned such derisive epithets as “Lackland” and “Softsword.” Even before Innocent's tenure, though, the involvement of Pope Henry IV in the Investiture Conflict had begun to hint at the tension between spiritual and (iii) leadership that would eventually boil over in the Protestant Reformation.

Blank (i)

zenith

pengee

antipathy

Blank (ii)

feckless

intemperate

resplendent

Blank (iii)

archaic

temporal

consecrated

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