 The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld, for the first time, a Christian bishop invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince : the choice of magistrates, the exercise of justice, the imposition of...  Handbook for Travellers in Northern Italy - Page 5451866 - 596 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1860 - 674 pages
...a temporal possession; " and the world beheld for the first time a Christian bishop invested >vith the prerogatives of a temporal prince, the choice...of Ravenna." After the transfer of the exarchate to Rome by the Carloviugian princes, the fortunes of Ravenna began rapidly to decline ; its archbishops... | |
 | Romani pontefici - 1861 - 1500 pages
...soul. The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion , and the world beheld for Ihe first time a Christian bishop invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince, Ihe choice of the magistrates, Ihe exercise of justice, the imposition of taxes, and the wealth of... | |
 | 1862 - 812 pages
...treachery and falsehood. The splendid donation however was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld, for the first time, a Christian...of taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna. In the disposition of the Lombard Kingdom, the inhabitants of the Duchy of Spoleto sought a refuge... | |
 | 1862 - 488 pages
...supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld, for the first time, a Christian Bishop investtd with the prerogatives of a temporal prince — the...of taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna. In the disposition of the Lombard Kingdom, the inhahitants of the Duchy of Spoleto sought a refuge... | |
 | John Algernon Clarke - 1862 - 324 pages
...SOVEREIGNTY. Gl magne invested the prelates of Rome with some of the prerogatives of temporal kings, — as the choice of magistrates, the exercise of justice, the imposition of taxes, and the wealth and palace of Ravenna. And as the popes assumed the language also of sovereigns — no longer using... | |
 | 1866 - 534 pages
...transaction the historian remarks: "The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld for the first time a Christian bishop invested with the,prerogatives of a temporal prince."* If, therefore, the exercise of temporal power by an ecclesiastical... | |
 | John Dowling - 1871 - 962 pages
...as the ridges of the Appenine. The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld, for the first time, a Christian...taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna."* § 56. — These limits were subsequently much enlarged by successive donations from the celebrated... | |
 | John Crowell - 1871 - 244 pages
...conferred them on the see of Rome. " The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld for the first time a Christian...bishop invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince."1 The grant was confirmed by Charlemagne, son of Pepin, who, having extended his conquests,... | |
 | Edwin Heycock - 1872 - 520 pages
...the ridges of the Appenines. " This splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld for the first time a Christian...invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince. In the dissolution of the Lombard kingdom, the inhabitants of the duchy of Spoleto sought a refuge... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1874 - 720 pages
...and the salvation of his soul. The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld for the first time a Christian...bishop invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince—the choice of magistrates, the exercise of justice, the imposition of taxes, and the wealth... | |
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