A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library (1905) (14797697643)

Identifier: historyofallnati08wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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e Pious. But he was far from being a servant of thechurch or a tool of the bishops. On the contrary, he maintainedunimpaired against both the rights that Otto I. had acquired,and exercised those rights purely in the interest of the state.Like Otto, he appointed the bishops, who were merely religiousofficials of the realm, and made use of them as subjects who wereunder obligation to serve him, and of their estates as propertyof the realm which had only been lent to them. He pursued asimilar policy toward the monks, and kept the abbeys of the king-dom in strict subjection, so that he might at any time be ableto utilize their rich estates for public ends. The last king of theSaxon house bore the surname of the Pious in a very differentsense from that in which the feeble successor of Charlemagne hadworn it. Henry justified it only by the favor which he showedthe strict reform movement of the Cluniacs, and which muchannoyed the German bishops. This was the principal cause of the PLATE XVI.
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Dedicatory picture in a copy of the Life of Emperor Henry II and his wife Kunigunde.In the lower field the emperor and empress are represented oflering to the enthronedChrist a model of Bamberg Cathedral. About 1150. (Bamberg, City Library.)History of All Naliovs, Vol. VIII., page 182. HENRY II. Uli OWNED EM FE ROB. 283 hostility that arose between Henry and the German clergy towardthe close of his reign. When one takes into account the tlifficulties which tliis stateof things at home produced in the whole foreign policy, whatHenry H. accomplished seems really important and meritorious.The aggressive Poles, under the powerful Boleslas III., were heldin check, while in Italy positive successes were gained. The unanimity with which the national party in Italy had arisenagainst the German rule after the death of Otto III. had soon van-ished. Henry II. had scarcely begun to feel secui-e upon the thronewhen the opponents of Arduin besought him for aid. As early as1004 the German monarch ma