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Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages

Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages – Ernest Flagg Henderson

To students of history, this book will assuredly become ( to use a hackneyed , but in this case correct word ) indispensable . The documents that are carefully translated in these pages cover nine hundred years of the great medieval period. It is positively delightful to be able to lay hold of a single easily – held volume, and to find all these rich stores at once pleasantly accessible . The volume is divided into four sections or books, each having its own introductory chapter. These sections are England, the Empire, the Church, and Church and State. Under the first head are included Laws of the Conqueror, Bull … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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De Monarchia

De Monarchia – Dante Alighieri

The treatise ‘De monarchia’, in three books, originally written in Latin, here in an English translation, contains the mature statement of Dante’s political ideas. In it he propounds the theory that the supremacy of the emperor is derived from the supremacy of the Roman people over the world, which was given to them direct from God. As the emperor is intended to assure their earthly happiness, so does their spiritual welfare depend upon the pope, to whom the emperor is to do honour as to the first-born of the Father. The date of its publication is almost universally admitted to be the time of the descent of Henry VII. into Italy, between 1310 and 1313, Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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