Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... ruler who was the guarantor of its peace , and that ruler turned out , as often as not , a parade - ground bully or a ... rulers of the Roman world undermined the real virtues which sustained it . They turned active and self - respecting ...
... ruler who was the guarantor of its peace , and that ruler turned out , as often as not , a parade - ground bully or a ... rulers of the Roman world undermined the real virtues which sustained it . They turned active and self - respecting ...
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... rulers a means of governing justly . It gave them clerics or clerks who could reduce their chaotic affairs to order , draft laws and reckon accounts and taxes . For the way of life the Church preached called for a law - abiding world ...
... rulers a means of governing justly . It gave them clerics or clerks who could reduce their chaotic affairs to order , draft laws and reckon accounts and taxes . For the way of life the Church preached called for a law - abiding world ...
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... rulers , but solely from his title as Charle- magne's successor and the bearer of the temporal sword of Christendom , his excommunication and deposition by the Holy See destroyed the grounds of his subjects ' allegiance . In the winter ...
... rulers , but solely from his title as Charle- magne's successor and the bearer of the temporal sword of Christendom , his excommunication and deposition by the Holy See destroyed the grounds of his subjects ' allegiance . In the winter ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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