A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library (1905) (14775319724)

Identifier: historyofallnati08wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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pelle, onthe very day of his death.His corpse was placed in aRoman sarcophagus of whitemarble (Figs. 15, IG), onwhich the rape of Proserpinawas represented in relief.Above the sarcophagus rosea gilded areli with a statueand an inscription, which des-ignated the grave as that ofCharlemagne, the great andorthodox emperor, who glori-ously enlarged the kingdomof the Franks. After a hun-dred and eighty-six jears thehalf-crazy Otto III. openedthe tomb from unhallowedcuriosity; but the story thathe found the dead emperorseated on the throne in hisfull imperial attire is a merefable. One hundred and fiftyyears later Frederick I.caused Charlemagnes bonesto be removed, in order toreplace them again on the oc-casion of the canonization ofthe great emperor, which wasperformed by the antipopeset up by Frederick, and wasintended to aid the policy ofthe house of Ilohenstanfen.Although the act was doneby a pope who was repudi-ated as unorthodox, thechureii acknowledged thecanonization of Charlemagne,
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104 FROM LOUIS THE PIOUS TO THE DIVISION OF THE EMPIRE.