False Decretals
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Isidore, publication of the False Decretals of, ii.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
From the middle of the 9th century this collection was to become even more celebrated; for, as we know, it served as the basis for the famous collection of the False Decretals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
The first of these, for which during 1860 and 1861 he had gathered materials in Italy, Spain, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland and Belgium, was the first critical edition of the False Decretals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
The False Decretals naturally assert the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome.
From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew
But the story is from the False Decretals.
From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson
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