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Title: Letters from foreign lands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Eccles, R. G. (Robert Gibson), 1848-1934
Subjects: History of Medicine Physicians
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Medical Fortnightly
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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about him than I did. Not contentwith this meagre recollection, and havingmy ouriosity aroused, I began the search forbetter information. Very soon I discoveredthat he was the central figure of Europes greatness, for reasons that I am about togive. He stood in the center of a charmedcircle of human ideality that has made theearth much different from what it would havebeen without him and without the idea herepiesented. To understand him and thisidea to which reference is made we must goback, in imagination, to the year S00 A. E>.when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne of France, king of kings and spiritual perpetu-ator of the Roman Empire. By the theoryof the Catholic Church Charlemagne becamethe ruler of all the earth. To him every kingbecame a subject and every kingdom a vas-salage. He had, at this time, conquered agoodly part of the earth, but in no spiritualsense was he believed to have the divine rightto rule until it came to him, from God,through coronation by the Pope. Never, at
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Pisa, Scuolo Medica Chirurgica. c. 50 any time, did either he or his successorsbecome the accepted rulers of the kings ofall the earth. After his coronation he be-came, thence forth, so far as the Catholic world is concerned, the Emperor of all trueCatholics, and of what is known as TheHoly Roman Empire. The various ordersof knights arose, at a later date, as the war-rior priesthood of this theoretical empire.They became to it what the Catholic clergyare to the church and its Pope, real soldiersof the cross, chosen defenders of Christ, andpromoters of Christian chivalry. Along theline of approved succession, to the title of Caesar (Kaiser) in this Holy Roman Empire, came Frederick Barbarossa the king (Koenig) of the Germans. Because of the color of hisbeard his Italian subjects called him Bar-barossa, which literally means red-beard. Hewas crowned emperor, at Rome, by Pope Adrian IV, in 1155. His own ideas of thedignity of this honor are set forth in a letterwhich he wrote to his German prelates, inwhich he says: On eart

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