A history of mediæval and modern Europe for secondary schools (1920) (14764405665)

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Title: A history of mediæval and modern Europe for secondary schools
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930 McKendrick, Norman Shaw, 1876-
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n Emperor, but really possessedonly the rights of a president of a league rather than of a truemonarch of a nation. Imperial power in Italy had longsince sunk to a name; while within Germany its extent wasusually measured by the personal influence of the Emperor, —who, to be sure, often as hereditary prince of a considerabledominion, might be a decidedly formidable personage. Some of these somewhat inglorious Emperors were reallyimportant figures in history. Rudolf of Hapsburg (1273-91)started his career as merely a petty prince with dominions inmodern Switzerland,^ and ended by transmitting to his sonsthe hereditary rights to the valuable Austrian lands — theterritories around Vienna, the nucleus of the present-day 1 One of the reasons why Rudolf was elected was because he seemed too insig-nificant to curb his fellow princes. From the Hapsburg line which he foundedare descended the present Emperor of Austria and the King of Spain. It is oneof the most famous dynasties in history.
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