Examples of papal

• Such propaganda was significant at the time, since papal reform would soon be trying to damage regal imagery.

• But those who achieved the highest percentage of benefices were papal nominees, followed closely by royal clerks.

• The last could well be what a thirteenth-century author would understand, anxious to show instruments in church as having papal blessing.

• For him however, the papal-episcopal relationship, was one of ' unity of subordination ', whereby the rights of each bishop were to be respected and maintained.

• There the vigils survived well into the sixteenth century even as their papal cousins had vanished three hundred years before.

• The figure of 120 days is odd : it may reflect a combination of episcopal grants, or alternatively a papal grant.

• All is well when papal error is manifest.

• Respect for papal dignity should rather encourage those who possess charity to correct papal errors.

• The retention of learned counsel was expensive and journeys to the papal court, often for considerable periods of time, were a constant drain on resources.

• The real issue here is not modernism itself but outrage against the counter-cultural papal authority which condemned it.

• With the loss of the papal states there was no longer need for a political heavyweight, but neither was he a scholar.

• A three-fold index allows such a wide-ranging volume to be a most profitable addition to resources for early modern papal history.

• The translator also omits any reference to the letter's formal dating-clause, a characteristic feature of papal correspondence.

• About 35 per cent of the papal letters appear in the papal registers, and the majority of documents in the collection have already been printed.

• The main body of the work consists of a calendar of the 840 papal and other documents that occur in the collection.