. The age of Hildebrand. bodies; and as high as the soul isabove the body, so high is the priest above the reader may easily imagine the rest. No doubtthe German envoys were greatly edified by this pieceof allegorical exposition, of which Innocent appearsto have been very fond, and which possessed the ad-vantage of making Scripture prove anything he mightdesire. From allegory he proceeded to history, declaringthat under Barbarossa the empire was united whilethe church was divided; but the schism and he whofostered it were stricken to the earth. Now thechurch is one and the empire is d
. The age of Hildebrand. bodies; and as high as the soul isabove the body, so high is the priest above the reader may easily imagine the rest. No doubtthe German envoys were greatly edified by this pieceof allegorical exposition, of which Innocent appearsto have been very fond, and which possessed the ad-vantage of making Scripture prove anything he mightdesire. From allegory he proceeded to history, declaringthat under Barbarossa the empire was united whilethe church was divided; but the schism and he whofostered it were stricken to the earth. Now thechurch is one and the empire is divided. He con-cluded with the assertion, which had the old Hilde- 316 Age of Hildebra7id, brandian ring, that the empire is granted as an in-vestiture by the Pope. He sent a letter to all theGerman princes, commanding them to recognize theworthiest as King. He declared that Philip seemedto him to have the majority, but that in Ottos favorwas the regularity of the coronation and the fact thatthe crown was not CHAPTER XXIX. HERESY ATTACKED IN FRANCE—INNOCENT DE-CIDES FOR OTTO—THE CRUSADERS AT VENICE—THE NEW LATIN EMPIRE IN THE EAST. |T was not likely that Innocent would longkeep his hands off that stronghold ofheresy, southern France. Raymond Toulouse in 1195 succeeded his fatherin the possession of those vast territoriesin the south, which made him almost an independ-ent sovereign. He was allied by marriage with theroyal houses of Castile, Aragon, Navarre, France, andEngland, and was personally on friendly terms withthe French King. His easy indifference to religiousquestions encouraged the spread of heresy in his do-minions. Most of his barons were either favorablydisposed towards the Cathari or belonged to had endured for nearly a generation; theland was prosperous and at peace; but the conditionof the church was such as to excite the indignationof the Pope. It had fallen into such disreputeamong the people that it seemed likely to dis
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