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Talking to anybody. he didn't want him to be able to communicate with his supporters, so essentially put him under house arrest in order to protect his own legitimacy as pope. >> and so celestine dies in captivity. >> in the 13th century, however, a retired pope is not the only threat to a sitting pope's power. in a time when the lines between church and state are fluid, kings are just as threatening to papal power as previous popes. >> there's always a bit of a problem as to who was in charge. was it the king or was it the pope? >> so much of the maneuvering and back and forthing and jousting...

His papacy. >> but despite the peaceful nature in which celestine v resigned and because of the violence and instability surrounding the resignation of benedict ix 250 years earlier, the new pope must make sure that celestine is never heard from again. >> after celestine retired and boniface became the pope, he felt that it was dangerous to have two living popes. >> you can't have another pope knocking about and threatening the pope. >> immediately after celestine leaves the vatican, boniface has him attacked and locked up. >> he didn't want celestine

Elect him pope. >> in the 13th century you had great succession of reforming popes, politicians, but this is not how a pope should be. so what they did was elect a pope who was as unworldly as you could possibly hope for, a hermit. they called him celestine, the heavenly one. >> celestine v does not want to be pope. he'd rather be praying off alone by himself, and he goes to do this papacy rather reluctantly. >> it is not super clear that he even exactly knew what was going on. it is not clear how sharp mentally he was. >> celestine v was just hopeless. couldn't run the church at all. >> after...