Intimately associated with the history of the palace of the Popes of Avignon is that of the unparalleled circuit of walls and towers which defended the city from the scourge of organized robber bands during the fourteenth century.
The glowing splendor of frescoed walls was enhanced by gorgeous hangings and tapestries and by the magnificent robes and jewels of popes and cardinals.
Such, in brief outline, was the progress of the mighty fabric and its internal decoration which the great popes of Avignon raised to be their dwelling-place, their fortress, and the ecclesiastical center of Christendom.
Political popes have always been a disturbing element in the European system.
The Saxons had brought back heathenism, but had again been soon converted; and the popes {p.
So the good Popeswill find the Church still in outcry.
Kings dispose of their own power; but thePopes cannot dispose of theirs.
Petrarch has accused the popes of his day of persisting in staying at Avignon when they could have returned to Rome, simply on account of the goodness of the wines they found there.
The fame of the schools of Reims, where future popes and embryo emperors met as class-mates; the festive gatherings which marked the coronation of Henry I.
While the popes at times were victorious, the result of their course was to cause a feeling of contempt for their conduct, as well as of fear of their power.
For many years, to maintain their position as a ruling power, the popes had engaged in political squabbles with the princes of Europe.
Wyclif in England advocated a simple form of church worship, rebelled against the arbitrary power of popes and priests, preached against transubstantiation, and advocated the practice of morality.
In those days popes were usually not honored in their own country, and, moreover, had enough to do to control their refractory subjects to the north of the Alps.
Popes are said formerly to have given away or taken away kingdoms; what then?
Popes could not bestow upon America anything except a name, but is not that which some Papesses bring us from that land something much more real?
Is it not well known to women themselves that they are as infallible as the Pope, and if he, as the Jansenists believe, is more so in dogmatic than in historical matters, is not with the female Popes the reverse true?
Purgatory into Heaven[18]; but do our female Popes need angels for that?
The terra-cotta busts of the Popes in the cornice along the nave and choir belong to the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries.
Ludwig Pastor, The History of thePopes from the Close of the Middle Ages.
As a painter he first worked under Pinturicchio, then went to Rome where he laboured much for the Popes and Agostino Chigi, falling under the influence of Bazzi and later of Raphael, whom he succeeded as chief architect of San Pietro.
It is not popes and priests and inquisitors only that are examples of the tendency.
Popes and inquisitors and priests of all Churches have done the same, in their degree, in all ages.
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Other popes had done it, and had come back with honour and glory.
When it comes to keeping them they must just wink at each other, as all popesand all kings have done.
He mentioned at the same time the admiration for Lorenzo expressed by a Venetian poetess honoured by all scholars and literary men, as well as by popes and kings.
It is an impure deposit in the sacred fountains of Christianity, thrown into them and mixed up with them, by the unclean hands of the Romish Popes and priests.
Let me give you an instance of the manner in which some of the holypopes have disposed of whole kingdoms.
It is fair to judge of all the Popes as this man has been judged; he is a correct model of the whole, and I doubt not but, taking him all and all, he is the best model that has been given of a Romish Pope.
Do you see any difference manifested here towards heretics, and that which the Popes have always shown towards them?
Nothing was easier for me than to reject the Bible as a rule of faith, and permit myself to be governed by the babblings of popes and churchmen.
I have appealed to history and proved my assertion by facts, not taken from prejudiced writers, but facts recorded and gloried in by Popes themselves and Popish writers.
The power of the popes has often been shaken, yet they have stood every shock.
But God who made Popes and Kings meant them to be the fathers, not the seducers of their subjects.
In the millennium Rossi looks for, not only are kings and princes to disappear, but popes and prelates as well.
But perhaps it may be said the popes were not responsible for all this.
The decretal letters of the popes were put on a par with Scripture.
On one side, the cardinals wanted a larger share in the church government and emoluments; on the other, the popes refused to surrender revenues or power.
The return of the papacy to Rome was far from restoring the influence of the popes over the Italian Peninsula.
At length it came to be received, throughout the West, that the popes had been, from the beginning of Christianity, legislators for the whole Church.
It was not the Goth, nor the Vandal, nor the Norman, nor the Saracen, but the popes and their nephews, who produced the dilapidation of Rome!
Up to the end of the twelfth century, the popes were the vicars of Peter; after Innocent III.
It is for this and such as this that the popes must be held responsible.
But an absolute sovereign has need of revenues, and to this the popes were no exception.
For more than forty years two rival popes were now anathematizing each other, two rival Curias were squeezing the nations for money.
He, therefore, restricted the right of holding them to the popes and their legates.
The popes were, for the most part, at their election, aged men.
Some of the popes had occupied it as a woollen-mill, some as a saltpetre factory; some had planned the conversion of its magnificent arcades into shops for tradesmen.
Elections of popes and anti-popes continued to be accompanied by the gravest scandals, until the Emperor Henry III.
Popes followed each other and died in swift succession.
It recalls to our mind one of the most turbulent and riotous periods in the annals of Rome and the papacy, the fight between the "independents" led by the Crescenzi, and the party of the Saxon emperors, represented by Popes Benedict VI.
The example of desertion was set by the Popes themselves.
The Vatican began to be the official mausoleum of the Popes with Leo I.
Peter's," upon which the Popes sat after baptizing the neophytes.
Peter's once crossed, we hear no more of Popes being buried outside, in the old atrium.
When we read, for instance, of Popes elected by the people assembled at the Rostra,[32] such as Stephen III.
I have just mentioned the vault of the Popes as belonging to the same Cemetery of Callixtus.
I have noticed, in my History of Rationalism, that, although some Popesdid undoubtedly try to suppress Spanish bull-fights, this was solely on account of the destruction of human life they caused.
Ireland, on the other hand, had been given over by two Popes to the English invader, on the condition of the payment of Peter's pence.
The Popesand the bishops exercised a strict supervision over domestic morals, and strenuously, and in most cases successfully, opposed the attempts of kings and nobles to repudiate their wives.
In their complete military impotence, thePopes looked abroad for some foreign succour, and they naturally turned to the Franks, whose martial tastes and triumphs were universally renowned.
But in this Spectator paper young Popes Essay on Criticism certainly was not damned with faint praise by the man most able to give it a firm standing in the world.
I have read somewhere that one of the Popes refus'd to accept an Edition of a Saints Works, which were presented to him, because the Saint in his Effigies before the Book, was drawn without a Beard.
Addison then, through Steele, wrote to Popes publisher of this manner of treating Mr. Dennis, that he could not be privy to it, and was sorry to hear of it.
Footnote 5: The other piece with which Addison ranks Popes Essay on Criticism, was by John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, who was living when the Spectator first appeared.
With those last words which form the second line in the Essay on Poetry Popes citation has made many familiar.
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In continuing his policy, the succeeding popes acted with wisdom.
But, though they might have the will, the popes had lost the power, and these great submissions were productive of no good.
A taste for caligraphy and the possession of splendidly-illuminated manuscripts seems to have anticipated in the khalifs, both of Asia and Spain, the taste for statuary and paintings among the later popes of Rome.
The Popes seize the military and monetary Resources of Europe through the Crusades.
Among the bishops, sovereigns, and even popes thus affected, there were many men of elevated views, who saw distinctly the position of Europe, and understood thoroughly the difficulties of the Church.
It does not appear that the popes themselves personally had ever any living faith in the result.
The rival popes were incessantly accusing each other of falsehood and all manner of wickedness.
The blameless lives of the German popeshad cast a veil of oblivion over the abominations of their Italian predecessors.
Thus the difficulties of their position led the popes to a repetition of their ancient policy; and as they had, in old times, sought the protection of the Frankish kings, so now they sought that of the Normans.
Was it at all extraordinary that, if there had been popes sincerely accepting that criterion, the issue should be a pope who was a sincere misbeliever?
In Rome, Jewish physicians were very numerous, the popes themselves employing them.
We have only to look at the measures taken by the popes to understand their opinion.
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