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... feudal customs of the thirteenth century , so among the institutions of the Middle Ages there is scarcely one which can be understood until it is traced up either to classical or to primitive Teutonic antiquity . Such a mode of inquiry ...
... feudal customs of the thirteenth century , so among the institutions of the Middle Ages there is scarcely one which can be understood until it is traced up either to classical or to primitive Teutonic antiquity . Such a mode of inquiry ...
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... feudalism . The presumption in later times was that all men were to be judged by it who could not be proved to be subject to some other g . Its phrases , its forms , its courts , its sub- tlety and precision , all recalled the strong ...
... feudalism . The presumption in later times was that all men were to be judged by it who could not be proved to be subject to some other g . Its phrases , its forms , its courts , its sub- tlety and precision , all recalled the strong ...
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... feudalism as counts and dukes . Their benefices are held under the same conditions of fealty and the service in war of their vassal tenants , not of the spiritual person himself : they have similar rights of jurisdiction , and are ...
... feudalism as counts and dukes . Their benefices are held under the same conditions of fealty and the service in war of their vassal tenants , not of the spiritual person himself : they have similar rights of jurisdiction , and are ...
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... Feudalism was the one great institu- tion to which those times gave birth , and feudalism was a social and a legal system , only indirectly and by con- sequence a political one . Yet the human mind , so far from being idle , was in ...
... Feudalism was the one great institu- tion to which those times gave birth , and feudalism was a social and a legal system , only indirectly and by con- sequence a political one . Yet the human mind , so far from being idle , was in ...
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... feudal lord of a portion of the earth's surface , but as solemnly invested with an office . Not only did he excel in dignity the kings of the earth : his power was different in its nature ; and , so far from supplanting or rivalling ...
... feudal lord of a portion of the earth's surface , but as solemnly invested with an office . Not only did he excel in dignity the kings of the earth : his power was different in its nature ; and , so far from supplanting or rivalling ...
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Aachen ancient Arnold of Brescia Augustus authority barbarian became bishop body Burgundy Cæsar called Carolingian Catholic century CHAP Charles Charles the Bald chief Christendom Christian Church civil claim clergy Conrad Conrad II Constantine coronation crown dignity divine doctrine dominion Eastern ecclesiastical Eginhard election electors Emperor Europe faith feudal France Frankish Franks Frederick Frederick Barbarossa Gaul Greeks Gregory Hadrian Hapsburg head Henry Henry III Henry the Fowler hereditary Hohenstaufen Holy Empire ideas imperial imperium Italian Italy kingdom less Lewis Lombard lord mediæval medieval Middle Ages modern monarch never nobles Odoacer Otto Otto III Otto's Papacy papal peace Peace of Westphalia person Pertz Peter political pontiff Pope princes race Reformation reign religion religious revival Roman Empire Romanorum Rome Saxon seems shew sovereign spiritual successors temporal Teutonic theory throne tion tribes unity
Popular passages
Page 115 - He shall judge the poor of the people, He shall save the children of the needy, And shall break in pieces the oppressor. 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, Throughout all generations.
Page 266 - Maximus ille es, unus qui nobis cunctando restituis rem. excudent alii spirantia mollius aera (credo equidem), vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent : 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (hae tibi erunt artes), pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Page 231 - Krönungsmahle. Die Speisen trug der Pfalzgraf des Rheins, es schenkte der Böhme des perlenden Weins, und alle die Wähler, die sieben, wie der Sterne Chor um die Sonne sich stellt, umstanden geschäftig den Herrscher der Welt, die Würde des Amtes zu üben.
Page 351 - With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless realms receive his sway ; Short sway ! fair Austria spreads her mournful charms, The queen, the beauty, sets the world in arms ; From hill to hill the...
Page 181 - ... blossom in the valley, to descend with his Crusaders and bring back to Germany the Golden Age of peace and strength and unity."1 So wrote Bryce in the early sixties of the nineteenth century.
Page 92 - Because divinity was divided, humanity had been divided likewise; the doctrine of the unity of God now enforced the unity of man, who had been created in his image. The first lesson of Christianity was love, a love that was to join in one body those whom suspicion and prejudice and pride of race had hitherto kept apart. There was thus formed by the new religion a community of the faithful, a Holy Empire, designed to gather all men into its bosom, and standing opposed to the manifold polytheisms of...
Page 66 - Thirdly, to do no violence nor treason towards the holy Church, or to widows or orphans or strangers, seeing that the lord emperor has been appointed, after the Lord and His saints, the protector and defender of all such.
Page 268 - Caesar, therefore, shew towards Peter the reverence wherewith a firstborn son honours his father, that, being illumined by the light of his paternal favour, he may the more excellently shine forth upon the whole world, to the rule of which he has been appointed by Him alone who is of all things, both spiritual and temporal, the King and Governor.
Page 100 - Donation. drew to herself the reverence which the name of the city still commanded, until by the middle of the eighth, or, at latest, of the ninth century she had perfected in theory a scheme which made her the exact counterpart of the departed despotism, the centre of the hierarchy, absolute mistress of the Christian world.
Page 343 - Baltic, each with its own laws, its own courts (in which the ceremonious pomp of Versailles was faintly reproduced), its little armies, its separate coinage, its tolls and custom-houses on the frontier, its crowd of meddlesome and pedantic officials, presided over by a prime minister who was generally the unworthy favourite of his prince and the pensioner of some foreign court.