HISTORY OF THE POPES
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THE BEGINNINGS
OF THE
TEMPORAL SOVEREIGNTY OF THE POPES
A.D. 754-1073
Mgr. L. Duchesne
3.-THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE POPE AND THE FRANKISH INTERVENTION 6.-ROMAN INSTITUTIONS IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY 7.-CHRISTOPHER THE PRIMICERIUS 9.-THE PONTIFICAL STATE IN THE TIME OF CHARLEMAGNE 11.-THE CONSTITUTION OF LOTHAIRE
PREFACE
This book is the outcome of a course of lectures
given at París some twelve years ago. They made their first public appearance,
collected and printed, in a Review, and, afterwards, a fairly large selection
of them was placed at the disposition of the public. As the first edition of
the lectures is now exhausted, I am, in accordance with request, bringing out
another. This, however, is rather out of deference to the advice of my
publisher, than to any deep sense of the book's importance. So many people have
written on the subject, and with so much erudition! At least, I suppose so; but
not being a person of unlimited leisure, I have, as a rule, confined myself to
the study of original documents, without unduly troubling myself about the
lucubrations to which they have given rise. Few foot-notes will be found in
these pages, for I have been chary of references, even with regard to my own
first- hand investigations. Many details are explained in my notes on the Liber Pontificalis, to which the learned and conscientious reader is respectfully referred. Small works
of this kind are intended for the average reader.
For the benefit of the latter, then, I have tried to explain the formation of the little pontifical state in the eighth century, and how the conditions under which it worked during the first three centuries of its existence are connected with the great religious conflicts in the time of Gregory VII. It is true that the subject may appear remote, but as long as it is a question of the Church and of Italy, its interest can never fail.
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