. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. male representative of the accursed andheretical spawn of the Hohenstaufen was left to menace thePapacy. A French dynasty had (at the papal invitation)already seized southern Italy and Sicily. In Germany, civilwar raged between pre-tenders to the crown. Notfor many years was thePapacy really to fear an Emperor who couldabridge its powers and free-dom of action. In truth, agreat page of human his-tory had been closed. Thedream of a universal em-pire founded upon theelective feudal kingship inGermany had ended insheer disaster. Wh
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. male representative of the accursed andheretical spawn of the Hohenstaufen was left to menace thePapacy. A French dynasty had (at the papal invitation)already seized southern Italy and Sicily. In Germany, civilwar raged between pre-tenders to the crown. Notfor many years was thePapacy really to fear an Emperor who couldabridge its powers and free-dom of action. In truth, agreat page of human his-tory had been closed. Thedream of a universal em-pire founded upon theelective feudal kingship inGermany had ended insheer disaster. When theGermanic kings ought tohave been strengtheningtheir power at home, theyhad been chasing the impe-rial will-o-the-wisp in attempt had been broken upon the resistance of thePapacy and the hatred of Italians for German failure left Germany still a dissevered feudal country,with its Emperor only the pretentious head of a weak con-federation of princes: while in Italy there was even greaterdisunion without any common monarch at POPE CLEMENT IV (1265-1268)Endowing Charles of Anjou, by a papalbull, with the crown of the Two Sicilies. (Froma fresco at Perries (Vancluse), France) 164 HISTORY OF EUROPE The Papacy seemed for the moment triumphant. As amatter of fact, while it had been beating down the Germans, anew power had been rising to prominence — France; and beforethe swelling power of the French monarchy, the Popes weresoon to learn how groundless were their hopes of becomingsecular dominators of the world with its kings their obedientdeputies. 89. St. Francis and his friars. The clang and clash of thewars of the Popes and the Emperors fills much of the thirteenthcentury, but it was by no means an age of naught but struggleand confusion. In the reign of the great Innocent III himselfbegan a new phase of the old monastic movement which soonput its impress upon almost the whole intellectual and spirituallife of Europe. In 1182, was born at Ass
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