 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
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 632 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...of taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna. In the dissolution of the Lombard kingdom, the inhabitants of the duchy of Spoleto °4 sought a refuge... | |
 | Richard Wigginton Thompson - 1876 - 770 pages
...disregard of all legal rights, " the 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."(") It is insisted by many who defend the temporal prerogatives of the popes, that this donation of Pepin... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1877 - 736 pages
...Charlemagne, by whom the Lombards were expelled, and Ravenna, with the exarchate, made over to the Holy See : "and the world beheld for the first time a Christian...taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna." After this transfer, the fortunes of Ravenna began rapidly to decline; its archbishops frequently seized... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1878 - 736 pages
...of the victories of Pepin. . . . The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld for the first time, a Christian...the exercise of justice, the imposition of taxes, the wealth of the Palace of Ravenna."* Thus as to the time, place, and manner of its origin, the power... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1879 - 756 pages
...of the victories of Pepin. . . . The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld for the first time, a Christian...the exercise of justice, the imposition of taxes, the wealth of the Palace of Ravenna."* Thus as to the time, place, and manner of its origin, the power... | |
 | 1879 - 366 pages
...fruits of the conquests of Pepin. The splendid donation was given 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... | |
 | H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1882 - 812 pages
...Belisarius and Narses, AD 548." — Hay tin. (j) "The world beheld for the first time a Christian biahop invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince...taxes, and the wealth of the Palace of .Ravenna." — Gibbon, chap. XLIX. (fc) Guido da Polenta, patron of Giotto and protector of Dante, father of Fran... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1882 - 870 pages
...absolute dominion, and the world beheld for the first time, a Christian BisJiop, invested with tht prerogatives of a temporal prince: the choice of magistrates,...the exercise of justice, the imposition of taxes, the wealth of the Palace of Ravenna."* Thus as to the time, place, and manner of its origin, the power... | |
 | Thomas Robinson - 1882 - 354 pages
...power, the Pope being both a secular prince and a spiritual teacher, or, as Gibbon expresses it, " a Christian bishop invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince." The Pope claimed both swords, the civil and the ecclesiastical; a combination perhaps indicated in the... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1891 - 720 pages
...by whom the Lombards were expelled, and Ravenna, with the exarchate, made over to the Holy See : ' ' and the world beheld for the first time a Christian...taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna." After this transfer, the fortunes of Ravenna began rapidly to decline ; its archbishops frequently seized... | |
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