Excerpt from History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages, Vol. 3

Charles derived the title of his Empire from Rome, but the material which filled the ancient form had become essentially Teutonic; and in calling the New Empire the Germanic-Roman we but give expression to the alliance of those opposing elements on which the development of Europe rested. One nationality continued the history of mankind as an unbroken inheritance; it handed the possessions of the ancient civilization, together with the ideas of Christianity, on to posterity; - the other received and resuscitated or developed both civilization and religion. Rome had drawn the German world to herself.

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