Excerpt from Catholic Church and Christian State, Vol. 2 of 2: A Series of Essays on the Relation of the Church to the Civil PowerThe relation of the pope towards the Holy Roman Empire has been interpreted in various ways, according to the views or prepossessions of the historian. If its origin be ignored, the empire is not seldom confused with the kingdom of Germany, and Popes are charged with having maintained immoderate pre tensions against emperors. In the first part of this essay we prepose to examine the Papacy and the Empire down to F te derick II. In the second part, the struggle of Frederick H. With the Church in the third part, the Empire until its fall.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.