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Excerpt from Modern Church History, Vol. 3: From the Reformation to the Close of the Ninetteen Century
From its early history, the Church in France was remarkable for its spirit of independence. Charle magne would not permit the introduction of images, though they were approved by the pope. It was Philip the Fair who opposed the most successful resistance to the arrogant domination of the medi eval popes, and his successors held the papacy in a Babylonian captivity at Avignon for seventy years. In 1594, Pierre Pithon published his Lib erties of the Gallican Church, in which be con tended that the law had always made the French king the head of the Church as to its temporalities, while the pope had supreme spiritual jurisdiction. By his Concordat of 1515, Francis I had abandoned part of these claims, but most French lawyers held that the nation was not bound by his act, which was virtually a betrayal of their liberties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
