Identifier: mediaevalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediaeval and modern history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston : Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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CHARLES THE GREAT AS A RULER 65 to Constantinople. We say this was what he actually effected;for the Greeks of the East, disregarding wholly what the Romanpeople and the Pope had done, maintained their line of emperorsjust as though nothing had occurred in Italy. So now from thistime on for centuries there were, most of the time, two emperors,one in the East and another in the West, each claiming to be therightful successor of Caesar Augustus.^ This revival of the Empire in the West was one of the mostimportant matters in European history. It gave to the followingcenturies a great political ideal, which was the counterpart ofthe religious ideal of a Universal Church embodied in the Papacy,and which was to shape large sections of mediaeval history. 76. Charles the Great as a Ruler. — Charlemagne must not beregarded as a warrior merely. His most noteworthy work wasthat which he effected as a legislator and administrator. In thisfield, too, were exhibited the finer qualities of his mas

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