History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073.
the Eastern empire, and he is often called the new Constantine, but is as far superior to him as the Latin empire was to the Gre ...
Charles had a commanding, and yet winning presence. His physique betrayed the greatness of his mind. He was tall, strongly built ...
Notwithstanding his many and great virtues, Charles was by, no means so pure as the poetry and piety of the church represented h ...
terrible in war, merciful in peace, as a victorious hero, a wise lawgiver, an unerring judge, and a Christian saint. He suffered ...
herself to a religious life from girlhood, and he cherished as much affection for her as for his mother. She also died a few yea ...
by any weaker hand. In the dark ages of European history the reign of Charlemagne affords a solitary resting-place between two l ...
Pippin, whose name, for the first and only time in history, the admiration of mankind has indissolubly blended with the title th ...
Charlemagne inherited the protectorate of the temporal dominions of the pope which had been wrested from the Lombards by Pepin, ...
the king the third degree in the scale of earthly dignities. He sent to Charles from Tours before his coronation a splendid Bibl ...
the spirit of modern history and civilization. The Vatican Palace is the richest museum of classical and mediaeval curiosities, ...
successors had raised the church to dignity and power, and bestowed upon it all the privileges of a state religion. The transfer ...
The House of Hohenstaufen. Under the Swabian emperors of the house of Hohenstaufen (1138–1254) the Roman empire reached its high ...
The empire continued to live for more than five centuries with varying fortunes, in nominal connection with Rome and at the head ...
constructed, by arbitrary force, a huge military empire on the basis of France, with the pope as an obedient paid servant at Par ...
Simultaneously with this German movement, Italy under the lead of Cavour and Victor Emmanuel, achieved her national unity, with ...
During this civil commotion the papacy had no distinguished representative, but upon the whole profited by it. Some of the popes ...
(Kist); a misinterpretation of the stella stercoraria (Schmidt); a satirical allegory on the origin and circulation of the false ...
Friedr. Maassen (R.C.): Geschichte der Quellen und d. Literatur des canonischen Rechts im Abendlande. 1st vol., Gratz, 1870. Com ...
The sacerdotal system. Pseudo-Isidor advocates the papal theocracy. The clergy is a divinely instituted, consecrated, and invio ...
the donation of the Lateran palace, which was originally the palace of the Lateran family, then of the emperors, and last of the ...
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