. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. THE LOMBARDS AND THE PAPACY Concordat of Worms in 112-2. For the history of architecturethe significant thing about tiiis struggle is the fact that, althoughending in a nominal compromise, it was, in the main, a losingstruggle for the Empire. Consequently it was a losing strugglefor the Lombard cities, which generally threw in their lot withthe Imperial party. Not that they had any cause to love theGermans, but from this moment the states of Italy begin thatshifting, juggling policy which was to r
. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. THE LOMBARDS AND THE PAPACY Concordat of Worms in 112-2. For the history of architecturethe significant thing about tiiis struggle is the fact that, althoughending in a nominal compromise, it was, in the main, a losingstruggle for the Empire. Consequently it was a losing strugglefor the Lombard cities, which generally threw in their lot withthe Imperial party. Not that they had any cause to love theGermans, but from this moment the states of Italy begin thatshifting, juggling policy which was to remain for so many cen-turies their characteristic and their bane. Caught in the whirlbetween two great powers, where they could not hope to main-tain their existence by force of arms, their only hope was toplay one rival off against the other by means of diplomacy, tojoin now one side, now the other, as political advantageserved. The struggle of Empire and Papacy made of Lombardy thebattle-ground of the great opposing forces of history, and, al-though in the investiture contest the suffering
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