The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages V.1 : 2
The book The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages V.1 : 2 was written by author Mann, Horace K. (Horace Kinder), 1859-1928 Here you can read free online of The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages V.1 : 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages V.1 : 2 a good or bad book?
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ZACHARY 28 I by imputing evil motives (knowledge of which they can only draw from their imaginations) to acts which, simply considered as history presents them, are quite innocent. But anyone who may have taken the trouble to read the preceding pages will, we imagine, have seen for himself that practically independent temporal power did not come to the popes all at once in the eighth century, but that civil authority gradually accumulated in their hands from the days of Pope Gregory I. ; and, a...s will be shown presently, long before his time. It will, doubtless, have been observed how, from the unwillingness or incapability of others, it naturally fell to the popes to take measures for the defence of the Roman duchy, and how in time, equally naturally, the people of Rome at last came to recognise only those as their rulers who had proved them- selves their sole preservers. We say it fell naturally to the popes, inasmuch as they were the most distinguished men in Rome, as well from the material resources at their command, as, of course, still more from the regard had by the people to their spiritual power.^ On the other hand, if the power of the Eastern emperors had been greater, had they honestly done their best for their Italian provinces, instead of endeavouring to use them merely as a means to raise money, or as an area through which their dogmatic 1 Non-Catholic writers do not hesitate to declare that the bishop of Rome was, as early as the second century, acknowledged as Head of the Church Universal, and contend thac " this fact cannot be contro- verted ; it has been acknowledged from the time of Ireneeus and Cyprian, whose works contain abundant evidence of the spiritual supremacy of the popes" {Eu7'ope in the Middle Ages, i.
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