False Decretals

American  

noun

1. the Pseudo-Isidorian documents.

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Example Sentences

Isidore, publication of the False Decretals of, ii.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

But the story is from the False Decretals.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson

X. I have elsewhere considered in some detail the growth of the spiritual jurisdiction of the Church, through the False Decretals, in the anarchy accompanying the fall of the Carlovingian empire.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

For the period between the False Decretals and Gratian, there is no work of this sort, but the materials have been put together and published in part by M.P.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

The False Decretals naturally assert the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome.

From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew