Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 30
at the price of their blood whilefighting under his orders—from the day when,by his miraculous baptism after the victory ofTolbiac (Fig. 1), he himself a proud Sicamber,submitted himself to and became a vassal ofthe Christian Church, simultaneously sprang into existence a theocraticand a martial… … 2 FEUDALISM. of the sword. Conspiracies, bloodthirsty executions, continual revolts, diversplots, in which were concerned at one time the kings leudes, at another theprincipal clergy; ecclesiastical censures, ceaselessly threatening these blind andsavage tyrants, who, while bending to the reproof,…
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