Medieval and modern history; an outline of its development (1903) (14589563377)

Identifier: medievalmodernhi00adam (find matches)
Title: Medieval and modern history; an outline of its development
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Adams, George Burton, 1851-1925
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan and co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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mily, theCarolingian, of great energy and political ability. The way foran alliance with the papacy had been opened at the conversionof Clovis when he adopted Catholic, or organized Christianity,in place of the Arian, or separatist form. Pippin the Short, nowready to assume the crown of the Franks, needed the aid of thepope, and the alliance was soon concluded. Pippin becameking, and the advance of the Lombards was checked. Thisconnection with Italy and the papacy was drawn still more closeby Pippins son, Charlemagne. Italy was an important link inhis great empire, which included all western Europe exceptSpain, which the Arabs still ruled as a result of the wonderfulimpulse which had been given to their tribes by the new reli-gion of Mohammed. The union of all the West under Charle-magne and the strong centralization with which he ruled it,made the revival of the title emperor of Rome seem a naturalstep to all the world. On Christmas day 800 Charlemagne wascrowned in Rome by the pope.
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A Street in Pompeii CHAPTER I T?TE EMPIRE AND ITS DECLINE I. The Character of the Early Empire. — His victory atActium made Octavius undisputed master of the Romanworld. The form of government which he estabhshed,following the model made by JuHus Caesar, was a new andpecuhar type of monarchy in history. But it was a verynatural form for a monarchy created by the slow and un-conscious transformation of a republic. For a generationor two longer, it might perhaps have been easy for a Romanto persuade himself that no great change had been made.The old magistrates continued to be elected as usual. Theassemblies still met and made laws. The Senate still exer- Octaviusemperor.The character ofthe Empire.The Monu-mentumAncyranum,translated,Penn. V.,No. I. The Empire mid its Decline (§2 Capes,The EarlyEmpire(Epochs) ;Bury, TheRomanEmpire,B.C. 27 toA.D. 180(StudentsSeries,Harpers). The constitu-tionalposition ofthe emperor.Merivale,Romans,Chap. XXXI. Emperor means general. cised its functions