562円 This is a collection of the forty-seven original statutes passed for the continuity of Roman law in the Burgundian realm. It has been attributed to the last king of the Burgundians, Gondomar. However, this identification is unclear given the composite nature of a document like this. In all likeli...

562円 The Synod of Ingelheim was called by Otto I the Great, in the then church of Saint Remigius in the German city of Ingelheim. Being summoned at the behest of Pope Agapetus II. It's primary goal was to resolve a long running Schism concerning the archiepiscopal see of Reims, then under the jurisdic...

562円 At various point during the tenure of the Carolingian dynasty, it was necessary to resolve dynastic disputes through the intervention of ecclesiastical synods with the public task of electing a monarch for the realm from the family of Charles the Great. Enclosed in this short volume are the docum...

562円 The Fourth Council of Constantinople is the eighth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, held in the city of Constantinople from 869 to 870. The council was called by Emperor Basil I the Macedonian, with the support of Pope Hadrian II. It deposed and anathemized Photius, a layman who had bee...

562円 Collected here are two Latin letters, the correspondence between Coenwulf and Pope Leo III regarding the episcopal districts of the Anglo-Saxon church. These letters would lead to the creation of the new archdiocese under royal patronage, the direct result of the formal exchange of letters in 798...

562円 Non Parum Animus Noster is a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander III in September of 1171 to promote a military venture against the Estonian tribes. He calls upon the various Christian kingdoms of the the North, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway to organize their efforts to neutralize this pagan threat...

562円 This work, frequently misattributed to St. Augustine of Hippo, is a biblical exegesis of the problem of pain and civil collapse. This theme is not arising out of a cultural vacuum. Our author, the 5th century bishop of Carthage, was captured by the Vandal tribesman under King Gaiseric, a devout A...

562円 Boethius of Dacia, or more accurately Boethius of Dania, was a 13th century Danish philosopher who was inspired by the growing Aristotelian revolution taking place in European universities. For Boethius, philosophy was the primary task of all mankind. The search for truth and wisdom was paramount...

562円 Ex commisso nobiswas a papal bull issued on July 7, 1136 by Pope Innocent II in Pisa. His election six years earlier prompted a schism in the Western Church. The Polish church supported the appointment of the Antipope Anacletus II, while St. Norbert, Archbishop of Magdeburg, remained faithful to ...

562円 Magnus VI, King of Norway, develop in his lifetime the reputation for the amending of Norway's ancient legal code, and granting specific definitions for the role of the king, his role privileges, protections allotted under the law to gentrymen, and the immunity of the Church of Norway. Magnus spe...

562円 This is a collection of eleven relatively brief documents, mostly of papal origin, which deal with the establishment of the church in Scandinavia. They deal with the establishment of the mission at Hamburg, under Imperial protection, and the attempt to extend this mission diocese into the untamed...

562円 This work, which survives only in a fragmentary form, belongs to the Syriac church father, St. Theodore of Mopsuestia, 5th century bishop of Antioch, dealing with the questions of Christian morality and the biblical genesis of mankind. It only survives in this Latin translation by Marius Mercator...