Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450)<br><br>Naturally these conceptions solidified into institutions. Out of the notion of the reality of abstract ideas grew up the great sys tem of the scholastic philosophy. If it were indeed true that there was a determined volume of religious truth then it followed that there must be some human organization by which that truth should be made known to men and that was the Church an abstraction made concrete in the Roman papal system. If the idea of power were indeed a divine concept then there must be some human order in which the divine will should have made this abstraction also concrete and there was the beautiful feudal hierarchy inde dependent of all limitations of country or of race culminating in that mysterious idea of the Mediaeval Empire which was to be above all other earthly powers the interpreter of the divine order in human affairs responsible to God alone.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.