Identifier: worldsstoryhisto07tapp (find matches)
Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e Emperor supported arival candidate, whom he later set up as Pope by force ofarms. Alexander answered by excommunicating the Emperorand by throwing all his influence to the aid of the citiesof northern Italy that had revolted against Fredericksauthority. After a struggle of sixteen years, Frederick wascompletely defeated at the great battle of Legnano (1176)and was forced to acknowledge Alexander as Pope. In 1177 took place his famous interview with Alexander.Frederick, Holy Roman Emperor, knelt at the feet of thePope, and the Pope bestowed upon him the kiss of peaceand reconciliation. At this, the Germans raised the shout,Lord God, we praise thee! Of this incident James Bryce,in his history of the Holy Roman Empire, says, It was therenunciation by the mightiest prince of his time of the projectto which his life had been devoted; it was the abandonmentby the secular power of a contest in which it had twice beenvanquished, and which it could not renew under more favor-able conditions.
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FREDERICK AND THE POPE to anger, answered: I yield not to thee, but to Peter.And he, hke a man in a passion, pressing his foot downharder, cried, Both to me and to Peter. Some saythat these things were done on Ascension Day, butothers that that was the day when the victory was won,and in memory of it the Pontiff ordained that all whoshould confess in that church on that day, should haveplenary indulgence. After these things Frederick and Alexander, with theDoge Ziani, went to Ancona. And all the city having runto see them, there were brought in the public name twoumbrellas, one for Pope Alexander, and the other forEmperor Frederick. But the Pope commanded that athird should be brought to the Doge of Venice, givingto him and to his successors forever the right to use it.And still in our times we see it borne with the other en-signs of authority in times of solemn pomp. And thePope, having come to Rome, was received with greatjoy, and perceiving the silver trumpets whose blare re-sounde

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