The Central Period Of The Middle Age 918 1273 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Central Period of the Middle Age, 918-1273, Vol. 2 of 6 Between the election of Henry the Fowler to the German throne and the rise of the House of Habsburg to power lies the central and most characteristic period of mediaeval history, the "Age of the Imperial Idea." The Carolingian Empire had broken up, but the influence of Charlemagne survived, as an inspiring tradition and a great ideal. If memory thus enshrined a World-State, centred in the city of Rome, hope pointed forward to a World-Church, symbolized by a "City of God." Hence the theory of political and ecclesiastical unity was never lost, even when, in practical politics, the disintegrating tendencies of declining tribalism and growing feudalism were at their height. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."