Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 103
... wealth of every realm in Christendom , the Pope's denial of secular sovereigns ' right to control and tax such wealth struck at the very root of government . Having piously endowed Christian sees and abbeys with land , kings and princes ...
... wealth of every realm in Christendom , the Pope's denial of secular sovereigns ' right to control and tax such wealth struck at the very root of government . Having piously endowed Christian sees and abbeys with land , kings and princes ...
Page 431
... wealth and the luxurious display which accompanied it lost them the respect of many true Christians . For the values that attached to the pursuit of wealth were not Christian values ; by the Church's own tenets they were sometimes ...
... wealth and the luxurious display which accompanied it lost them the respect of many true Christians . For the values that attached to the pursuit of wealth were not Christian values ; by the Church's own tenets they were sometimes ...
Page 440
... wealth of the Church and distribute it among deserving noblemen and knights ' that wolden justly govern the people and maintain the land against enemies ' . But when he extended his theological arguments and attacks on the institutional ...
... wealth of the Church and distribute it among deserving noblemen and knights ' that wolden justly govern the people and maintain the land against enemies ' . But when he extended his theological arguments and attacks on the institutional ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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