 | Giraldus (Cambrensis) - 1861 - Počet stránok 552
...transcendant genius of Innocent III. is conspicuous not only in the changes which he wrought in the whole system of European politics, but still more in his...resenting any infringement of their dignity. He found Christendom in a fluid, indeterminate state, with a tendency to glomerate round different centres and... | |
 | Horace Kinder Mann - 1915 - Počet stránok 376
...transcendent genius of Innocent III. is conspicuous not only in the changes which he wrought in the whole system of European politics, but still more in his...mastery of all opposition from contemporary sovereigns. ... At his death he left the Papacy the sole' acknowledged centre towards which all states gravitated... | |
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his transcendent genius ... is conspicuous not only in the changes he wrought in thewhole system of European politics, but still more in his successful mastery of all opposition from contemporary sovereigns. If Alexander desired to find kings as competitors... 