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Excerpt from The Emperor Sigismund: The Stanhope Essay, 1903 "His grand feat in life, the wonder of his generation, was this same Council of Constance, ... the illustrious Kaiser, - red as a flamingo, 'with scarlet mantle and crown of gold', - a treat to the eyes of simple mankind, ... Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire, and so much else: is not Sigismund now a great man?" Such is Carlyle's peremptory question. With the sure eye of an artist he has seized the outstanding incident in the Emperor's career and has painted it with greater skill than even an Ulrich von Reichenthal could command. But he has done more: he has shown the historian of Sigismund where his task lies. It is not too much to say that, for him, all matters of moment centre in the drama of Constance, whether or not it be "one of the largest wind-eggs ever dropped with noise and travail in this world." The Middle Ages were the battlefield of two great powers. 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.