QuoteHistorical Account★★★
Here’s Katharine Scherman again: “The Church, with the shadow of the ancient authority behind it, was the only symbol left of imperial Rome, and its bishop, the Pope, was the city’s only recourse for leadership and protection. . . . The Roman empire in Europe would be replaced by the spiritual empire—which came to be temporal as well--whose reigning seigneur was the bishop of Rome. “As for the Ostrogoths, with the defeat and dethronement of their leader and the destruction of their army, they passed out of Italian history; in fact, out of history altogether.”
Katharine Scherman, The Birth of France, 164-165.
The point
As Rome's empire crumbled, the Church inherited its authority, becoming Europe's new spiritual and temporal power.
Audience
Adults
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under a minute · 95 words