Identifier: modernhistoryeur00west (find matches)
Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ormer duchies were beginning to break up into smallerunits, each depending directly on the king. The extension ofGermany to the east had added other such states, also; sothat now, instead of being composed of four or five largegovernments, the realm was made up of many feudal units, —counties, marks, and new duchies, — of varying size. Thefuture was to show that under a weak ruler this conditionwould lead to all the more serious anarchy; but for the mo-ment it was easier for a strong king to control the manysmaller, scattered units, than it had been to regulate the fivepowerful duchies. 65. Henry III (i 039-1056) came to the throne under morepromising auspices than any earlier German king. Thepromise was well fulfilled. Henry was a good man and agreat ruler, and he raised the German kingship to the highestpoint it was ever to reach. His reign had three importantphases. a. Germany was extended, and strengthened against attacksfrom without. By a series of remarkable victories, Henry
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§ 65) THE EMPIRE — OTTO I TO HENRY III. 73 reduced the Magyar kingdom of Hungary and the Slav duke-doms of Poland and Bohemia to fiefs of the Empire. Therelation was wholly different from the uncertain suzeraintythe Empire had possessed before. Hungary, it is true, brokeaway again in Henrys own reign, and with Poland the con-nection was not to be permanent; but Bohemia was to remainalways part of the Empire and was soon to become one of itsleading states (§ 159). b. Within Germany, both church and state were reformed.(1) Henry enforced the Truce of God (§ 33), which hadnot before been introduced into Germany, and even tried towiden it into the Peace of the Land, by exacting oaths fromall German nobles to give up private war and to submit alldifferences to public courts. At the same time he encouragedthe growing towns by new and wider grants of trading privi-leges. (2) He allied himself closely to the party of Cluny,and in particular he put down simony. To be sure, he keptthe appo

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