Donation of Constantine and Constitutum Constantini : The Misinterpretation of a Fiction and its Original Meaning. With a contribution by Wolfram Brandes: The Satraps of Constantine

• Tác giả: Johannes Fried
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3110185393
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (201 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 219417
• Chủ đề: 1. Ancient history: to c 500 CE; 2. Constitution: government & the state

Tóm tắt

The Donation of Constantine is the largest and most powerful forgery in world history. Disputed until modern times, this document was the fuel of religious war, used by both the reformation, as well as the counter-reformation. Johannes Fried not only reinterprets the origin of this forgery (i.e. he ascribes it to the Franks` opposition of Emperor Louis the Pious), but retells, as well, the history of its misinterpretation since the High Middle Ages.