False Decretals
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The most famous of them are the Donation of Constantine and the False Decretals.
From Medieval Europe by H. W. C. (Henry William Carless) Davis
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 promises, true and legendary, of Pippin, and the spurious donation of Constantine, had still further extension in the False Decretals.
From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by William Holden Hutton
The False Decretals naturally assert the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome.
From Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang
Everybody is agreed in placing the origin of the False Decretals within the Frankish empire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
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