Outlines of European history . ad of making themselves feared at home and building upa great state, the German emperors wasted their strength ina long struggle with the popes, who proved themselves in theend far stronger, and eventually reduced the Empire to a mereshadow. Wealth ofthe Church Section 74. The Church and its Property In order to understand the long struggle between the em-perors and the popes, we must stop a moment to considerthe condition of the Church in the early Middle Ages. Itseemed to be losing all its strength and dignity and to befalling apart, just as Charlemagnes empire
Outlines of European history . ad of making themselves feared at home and building upa great state, the German emperors wasted their strength ina long struggle with the popes, who proved themselves in theend far stronger, and eventually reduced the Empire to a mereshadow. Wealth ofthe Church Section 74. The Church and its Property In order to understand the long struggle between the em-perors and the popes, we must stop a moment to considerthe condition of the Church in the early Middle Ages. Itseemed to be losing all its strength and dignity and to befalling apart, just as Charlemagnes empire had dissolved intofeudal bits. This was chiefly due to the vast estates of theclergy. Kings, princes, and rich landowners had long con-sidered it meritorious to make donations to bishoprics and 1 Henry II (1002-1024) and his successors, not venturing to assume the titleof Emperor till crowned at Rome, but anxious to claim Rome as attached to theGerman crown, began to call themselves, before their coronation, King
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