The Struggle of the Christian Civilization from the Era of the Crusades to the fall of the East (1453)
W. J. Garth Irons
The compromise between the ecclesiastical and civil powers of Western Empire, effected at Worms (1122), did not touch Byzantines. Roman world, still nominally one, had indeed for 300 years more maintained some-what artificial position which obliged West largely to ignore East; then led East regard as little than a dependency. This grown be, in many ways, inevitable, even from time Diocletian arrangement Empire; it acquired special force amidst various partitionings Constantine's descendants successors.
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