. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. ition to his au-thority. He immediately resigned, andJoseph was named his successor. The em-peror received his absolution as a matterof course. The ceremony was performedat the gates of St. Sophias. Michael, nearly at the patriarchs feet, madehis confession, and implored pardon. The patriarch read the form ofabsolution. This form was repeated by every bishop in succession, and theemperor knelt before each in turn and receiv
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. ition to his au-thority. He immediately resigned, andJoseph was named his successor. The em-peror received his absolution as a matterof course. The ceremony was performedat the gates of St. Sophias. Michael, nearly at the patriarchs feet, madehis confession, and implored pardon. The patriarch read the form ofabsolution. This form was repeated by every bishop in succession, and theemperor knelt before each in turn and received his pardon. He was thenadmitted into the church, and partook of the Holy Communion. By thisidle and pompous ceremony the Greeks believed that their church couldpardon perjury and legitimatise usurpation. About this time the treaty of Viterbo drew the attention of Michaelfrom the schism of the Arsenites to foreign policy, and his grand object be-ing to detach the pope from the alliance with Charles of Anjou, he began toform intrigues, by means of which he hoped to delude the pope into the per-suasion that he was anxious and able to establish papal supremacy in the. Oh.*«. Twelfth Century Knight, in CoatOF Mail 316 THE HISTORY OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE [1274-1280 ] Greek church ; while, on the other hand, he expected to cheat the Easternclergy into making those concessions which he considered necessary for thesuccess of his plans, on the ground that their compliance was a mere matterof diplomacy. Gregory X knew that it would be easier to effect the unionof the Greek and Latin churches by the instrumentality of a Greek emperorthan of a foreign conqueror. He therefore prohibited Charles of Anjou,who held the crown of Naples as his vassal, from invading the empire ; buthe forced Michael, by fear of invasion, to assemble a synod at Constantino-ple, in which, by cruelty and violence, the emperor succeeded in obtainingan acknowledgment of the papal supremacy. The severest persecuti
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