False Decretals

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noun

1. the Pseudo-Isidorian documents.

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False Decretals

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 Henry Charles Lea

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

But the story is from the False Decretals.

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

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 Andrew Lang

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