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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 339

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lished a kind of dictatorship in the city.The emperor overthrew this usurper, who was burnt alive; but he set upanti-popes, and Alexander III., when besieged in Rome, declared himselfthe ally of the Lombard cities, the chief of the Guelfs against the Ghibelins,and the champion of Italian liberty.… … Fig. 213.—Gregory IX. (1227—1241) handing the Decretals, which he had embodied in one work,to an advocate of the Consistory.—Fresco by Eaphael (1515), in the Stanzas at the Vatican. the intervention of the clergy or the people. The Crusades occupied mensminds during the last twenty years of the…

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