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Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e Germans. When Illyricum had beensecured by the Eastern Power, and Britain, Spain, Africa, thegreater part of Gaul, and the countries between the Danube andthe Alps had fallen into foreign hands, all eyes turned to theEast, and there sought the authentic Roman Empire, in the midstof those regions whose centre was New Rome. Italy had become 1 Anonymi Valesiani pars posterior, ed. Mommsen (Afon. Germ, hist., Auctt. antiq.,IX.), p. 314. 2 Chronicon (adan. 476), ed. Mommsen (ibid., XL), p. 91 : Hesperium romanaegenhsimpcrium, quod septingentesimo nono urbis conditae anno primus augusiorum OctavianusAugustus tenere coepit, cum hoc Augustulo periit, anno decessorum regni imperatorumquingentesimo vigesimo secundo, Gothorum dehinc regibus Romam tenentibusP io6 ROME AND THE POPES (NO. 75 a mere appendage and offshoot of the Empire, to which she wasnow readmitted as a subject.1 75. Coins of the period typify the political situation and alsothe Union still in existence. Those from the Empire of
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111. 19.—Coins of Pagan and Christian Rome. Coins of Pagan Rome—A, from Baumeister, Denkmaler des klass. Alterthums, i. 461, No. 507B, from ibid., i. 580, No. 623. Christian coins—C, from Garrucci, Arte crist., tav. 482, 3D, ibid., tav. 481, 28; E, ibid., 42; F, ibid., 38. Constantinople, some of which we have represented over againstcoins of Old Rome (see 111. 19), have a distinctly Christian char-acter. On some specimens Old and New Rome are seatedconjointly on a throne. These personifications are usually sur- 1 Dollinger, Das Kaiserthum Karls des Grossen, und seiner Nachfolger, in theMunch. Histor. Jahrbuch, 1865 (p. 299 to 416), p. 309. Engl, trans. : The Empire ofCharles the Great and his Successors, in Addresses, Lon. 1894. Cp. GAUDENZI, Suirapporti fra V Italia e P impero d) Oriente, 1888. no. 75) COLLAPSE OF WESTERN EMPIRE 107 mounted by the monogram of Christ, or they support a shieldon which this symbol of the Christian Empire is visible, thereby I signifying that Chri

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