What truth has been disclosed, since, that the Pope's contemporaries did not know?

Well Locke's contemporaries would know exactly what he meant in the late seventeenth century.

It was spectacular but worthless, as even his qualified contemporaries, honest or dishonest, well knew.

By the end of the thirteenth century the Empire had been shaken to its foundations, and contemporaries knew it.

His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s.

Actually, contemporaries knew him for his operas: one after the other, often meeting places of dancing, visual show and exotic scenes.

Little Kara and her contemporaries had never known the inside of the mines and the factories.

His contemporaries knew him as widely travelled in Europe.

His contemporaries knew that Averroës was meant by that.

By the end of the decade it was Gloucester, not the bishop, who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it.