History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . ?i^, o rS ^?^ b=i»»° flaUBO \NOaMADV \ .. ^o .or \et1»1/ ^r. >>,>° \^-^ f^%aJirrR D Y^\ C5^„,„5 /lis 5^. 0 ^ t^P <r li ??•A V «-^;fV<i<,°*l.™„. V m,„ %*\ Or, C=S ) , W jf„gi^E-,-tiENErra 0*,, Sco! Baleinol \ ^ Cr ^^ V>(THb]%1_i OSS? V^Kjk AST ^P«ilo:^S?^- 1 -- cEPBA4%v^;|s°=;i--i •;« (;ataala jETE Lougitude Eaat 15 from Greenwich Popes and Emperors 389 II. The Church and its Property 586. Lands of the Church draw it into the Feudal order to understand t
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . ?i^, o rS ^?^ b=i»»° flaUBO \NOaMADV \ .. ^o .or \et1»1/ ^r. >>,>° \^-^ f^%aJirrR D Y^\ C5^„,„5 /lis 5^. 0 ^ t^P <r li ??•A V «-^;fV<i<,°*l.™„. V m,„ %*\ Or, C=S ) , W jf„gi^E-,-tiENErra 0*,, Sco! Baleinol \ ^ Cr ^^ V>(THb]%1_i OSS? V^Kjk AST ^P«ilo:^S?^- 1 -- cEPBA4%v^;|s°=;i--i •;« (;ataala jETE Lougitude Eaat 15 from Greenwich Popes and Emperors 389 II. The Church and its Property 586. Lands of the Church draw it into the Feudal order to understand the long struggle between the emperorsand the popes, we must stop a moment to consider the conditionof the Church in the early Middle Ages. It seemed to be losingall its strength and dignity and to be falling apart, just as Charle-magnes empire had dissolved into feudal bits. This was chieflydue to the fact that the churchmen held such vast tracts of land. A king, or other landed proprietor, might grant fiefs to church-men as well as to laymen. The bishops became the vassals ofthe king or of other feudal lords by doing homage for a fief andswearing fidelity, just as any other vassal would do. An abbotwould sometimes secure for his monastery the protection
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