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The 35 pages that link to Papal bull, each with the reason it gives.

• Treaty of TordesillasNarrower topic: Unlike a papal bull, this treaty was a bilateral agreement negotiated by two crowns.

• CrusadesRelated: Papal documents authorized campaigns and defined their spiritual privileges.

• Medieval universitiesRelated: Papal grants could confirm privileges or authorize university teaching and degrees.

• Pope Innocent IIIRelated: Innocent used papal letters and decrees to communicate decisions across Christendom.

• Fourth Lateran CouncilRelated: The council’s decisions were promulgated through a papal document.

• Donation of ConstantineCompared with: A papal bull is a document type, not evidence that Constantine issued the alleged grant.

• Pope Leo XNarrower topic: Leo used papal bulls to condemn Luther and assert church authority.

• University of SalamancaRelated: Papal privileges helped validate Salamanca's degrees and the reach of its teaching.

• Dictatus PapaeCompared with: Dictatus Papae is a register entry, not a conventionally issued papal bull.

• Northern CrusadesNarrower topic: Papal bulls authorized campaigns and extended crusading privileges to Baltic warfare.

• Pope Alexander VIRelated: Papal bulls gave formal force to Alexander’s decisions and diplomatic claims.

• Act of Supremacy 1534Compared with: Papal claims and sanctions stood against the statute’s denial of Roman jurisdiction.

• Alexander NevskyRelated: Papal approaches to Alexander tested whether western church diplomacy could draw him into alliance.

• Livonian Brothers of the SwordNarrower topic: Papal authorization framed the order’s religious and military mission.

• Papal legateRelated: Written mandates and privileges could define a legate’s commission and the authority delegated to them.

• Pope Innocent IVBroader topic: Innocent issued Ad extirpanda as a papal bull in 1252.

• Apostolic ConstitutionRelated: A bull is a form in which an apostolic constitution may be promulgated.

• MindaugasRelated: Papal authorization provided the religious and diplomatic basis for Mindaugas’s coronation.

• Pope Pius IINarrower topic: Pius II used papal documents to summon support and give institutional force to his plans.

• Pope Pius VIINarrower topic: Pius VII used the bull Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum to restore the Jesuits.

• Treaty of AlcáçovasRelated: Papal documents supplied a broader diplomatic framework for Iberian claims overseas.

• Military ordersRelated: Papal bulls granted privileges and legal protections to major military orders.

• Declaration of ArbroathNarrower topic: The declaration was a diplomatic letter to the pope, not a papal bull.

• JosephinismRelated: Josephinist publication controls limited how papal documents could take effect within Habsburg territory.

• Pope Boniface VIIINarrower topic: Boniface used papal bulls to state policy and press his claims against secular rulers.

• Pope Honorius IIIRelated: Honorius used papal bulls to confirm privileges, issue commands, and address rulers and institutions.

• Aragonese CrusadeRelated: Martin IV used papal instruments to authorize the campaign and its religious privileges.

• Pope Benedict XIVRelated: Benedict used authoritative documents to set rules and clarify church policy.

• Vatican Apostolic ArchiveBroader topic: Bulls are among the historic document types preserved in the archive.

• Pope Adrian VIRelated: Papal documents were among the instruments available for announcing policy and discipline.

• Pope Adrian IVNarrower topic: Laudabiliter is commonly described as a bull, though its documentary status is contested.

• Pope Urban VIIRelated: Urban VII’s government issued a bull ordering restrictions on tobacco use in church buildings.

• Republic of AnconaRelated: Papal documents could define or confirm the privileges that framed Ancona’s self-rule.

• Gerard SassoRelated: Papal documents can establish institutional recognition more securely than later biographical anecdotes.

• History of the papacyRelated: Bulls were instruments through which popes issued authoritative rulings.