Identifier: modernhistoryeur00west (find matches)
Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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is peculiar aims. to rule as emperors somewhat later than the dates when their kingly rulebegan. To secure the succession to his family, the emperor usually securedthe election of his son to the kingship in his own lifetime, — sometimes whilethe hoy was a mere babe. The theory of election was maintained, and at theextinction of a dynasty, the election was real. The elections were conductedby the great nobles — for a long time without any settled procedure. Towardthe close of the period, however, a regular electoral college began toemerge, — one of the most peculiar institutions of the Middle Ages (§ 159). 1 Gregory was the first pope from without Italy, and his appointmentmarks an era in the development of the papacy into a world power. Plainly,if the bishop of Eome was to be the spiritual head of Christendom, it wasneedful that at his election the choice should not be restricted to Italians. GERMAN COLONIZATION ON THE EAST AT THE EXPENSE OF SLAVS, LETTS, AND MAGYARS, 800-1400.
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§64) THE EMPIRE —OTTO I TO HENRY III. 71 On Gregorys death, soon after his appointment, Otto appointeda Frenchman, G-erbert.1 Gerbert sympathized with Otto in hisimperial ideas, and the young prince now passed rapidly tomore and more impractical designs. He began to construct agreat palace on the Aventine for the imperial residence; andhe planned to make Eome the real as well as the nominalhead of the Empire, so as to rule Germany from that center.He introduced Oriental ceremonial and pomp into his court,and he dreamed of conquering the Byzantine Empire anduniting Greek and Latin Christendoms. But suddenly bothGermany and Italy flamed into revolt, and in the midst ofdefeat Otto died of fever. A German chronicler of the timeexclaims: — The sin of this king was that he would not look upon the land of hisnativity, delightful Germany, — so great was his love of dwelling in Italy,where savage destruction runs armed with a thousand languors and a thou-sand deaths. . . . He designed a

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