Identifier: historyofallnati09wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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d resurrection of the Saviour,that is, from Thursday evening until Monday morning of each week.Advent and Lent, the great festivals of the church, and, later, somespecial classes of the community — as husl)andmen with their cattleand implements — were included in tlie merciful prohibition. Henrys frank decision in its favor re-established in the happiestway the cordial connection between church and state, — the prelacyand monarchy, — disrupted in the most ruthless fashion by (iregoryVII. King and bishop were united in a common care for the nartional weal, and so drew the hearts of the people closer to themselves(Fig. 4). His sovereign and liis bishop became to the Germanthe foster-fathers of his industrial prosperity and his social and intel-lectual progress, while, on the contrary, he recognized in the ojiposingjjrinces and in the fJregorians, who had stirred U() fratricidal strifeeverywhere, their deadly antagonists. Thus an entirely new dis- LIFE IN THE ELEVENTH CENTVKY. 51
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52 THE CONFLICT IN THE EMPIRE UNDER HENRY IV. tributiou of parties was biought about, which placed at Henrys dis-posal the best elements of the popular strength, and appeared toguarantee his ultimate success. In what light must the catastrophe in which liregory, throughhis Norman allies, had involved Rome have appeared when comparedwith these unst-lti.sli labors of the excommunicated emperor m thecause of peace in Germany ? Even the Gregorians themselves couldnot shut out the perception of the contrast; and its recogidtion gaverise to a feeling of uneasiness and to a desire to modify, in somemeasure, the extreme rigor of Gregorys system. A sort of victorywas gained for the moderate tendency when, of the three men thatGregory suggested from whom to select his successor, none met theapproval of the cardinals. They elected instead tlie mild and concili-atory Al)l)ot Desiderius of Älonte Cassino, who assumed the title ofVictor III. In vain had Desiderius sought to escape the burden,even

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