Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ed out, he holds in his left the NewTestament, which is open at the following passage: Come unto me, ye chosen of myFather. Above his head is seen the cross with the crowns of thorns. Around him is achoir of angels, the Virgin, the saints, David and Solomon, the bishops and the religiousorders; below, to the right and to the left, St. John the Baptist, and Abraham receiving thesouls of the just; above, on the two shoulders, Jesus is giving the Holy Communion to theApostles, the wine being administered on one side and the bread on the other. through the vaults of the sacred edifice. Charlemagne, who had returned toSt. Peters on Christmas Day, for the service, knelt before the altar. The pope, 256 THE POPES, upstanding before him, placed upon his forehead a golden crown studded withjewels and proclaimed him emperor, thus giving him a real supremacy overall the Christian princes and people of the West. (Figs. 208 and 209.)The popes who were contemporary with the successors of Charlemagne
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Fig. 209.—The Coronation of an Emperor by the Pope,the Sovereign being represented by Maxi-milian I.—From Des Sainctes Ceremonies, a Manuscript of the Sixteenth Century, inM. Kuggieris Collection. though not of special note, governed the Church with wise moderation ; and asthey were all patrons of the Fine Arts, Borne is indebted to them for some ofher chief embellishments. Leo IV., in 847, was compelled to make Bornesecure from an attack by the Saracens, who were always making incursionsup to its very walls. For this purpose he constructed around the church ofSt. Peter a regular town—the Leonine city—which he fortified with high THE POPES. towers. He also fortified the places near Borne, and founded a new city,called Leopolis, which he surrounded with ramparts. Rome thus beingout of danger, he imitated the example of his predecessors by ornamentingthe churches, to which he gave paintings and other works of art of the valueof 5,971 silver marks. The fabulous story of Pope Joan

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