History Of The Intellectual Development Of Europe

by John William Draper

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H I S T O R Y INTELLECTUAL DEVELOl3R1EKT EUROPE -- 1863. -- PREFACE, AT the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Oxford in 1860, I read an abstract of the physiological argument contained in this work respecting th

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ISBN-13:	9781408604359
Publisher:	Wharton Press
Publication date:	10/26/2007
Pages:	644
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.42(d)

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CHAPTER HI. THE AGE OF FAITH IN THE WEST (Continued). OVERTHROW OP THE ITALIAN STSTEH BY THE COMBINED INTELLECTUAL AMD HOBAL ATTACK, Progress of Irreligion among the mendicant Orders. Publication of hereliral Books. Tne Everlasting Gospel and the Comment on the Conflict between PI'ilip the Fair and Boniface VIII. Outrage upun and death of the Pope. The French Kiwi removes the Papaci/ from Rome to Avignon. Post mortem Trial of the I'ope fur Atheism and Immorality. Causes and Consequence of the Atheium of the Pope. The Templars fall into Infidelity. Their Trial, Conviction, and Punishment. Immomlitie' of the Papal Court at Avignon. Its return to Rome. Caiiffs 01 Vie great Kcnitm. Disorganization of the Italian System. Decom;mition of the Papacy. Thrre Popes. The I 'ouncil of Constance alt-mpts to convert the papal Autocracy into a co 'Stit"t, onal M Diarchy. It murders John Mass a"d Jerome of Prague. Pontificate of Nicolas V. End uf the intellectual influence of the Italian System. About the close of the twelfth century appeared among the mendicant friars that ominous work, which, TheEveriaat- under the title of "The Everlasting Gospel," lng "ospeL" struck terror into the Latin hierarchy. It was affirmed that an angel had brought it from heaven, engraven on copper plates, and had given it to a priest called Cyril, who delivered it to the Abbot Joachim. The abbot had been 3ad about fifty years, when there to it by the was put for. a, A D. 1250, a true exposition .f the F tendency of his book, u r the form of an introduction, by John of Parma, the general of the Fran- ciscans, as was universally suspected or alleged. Notwith. standing its heresy, the work displayed an enlarged andmasterly conception of the histo...