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A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Finally, to this category belongsthe Slavonic Chronicle of Ilelmold, adisciple and assistant of Bishop Vicelin ofFig. 1. - Kill« iu luyui robes. Oldenburg, who, as priest of Bosau, onTwelfth century. From a , , , , . t^, • tt , • i j- -i- miniature in a manuscript of le lake of Plon, in Holstein, and tamiliar the twelfth century at Brus- ^yith both the conntrv and i^eople, narratessels. (From Lacroix.) . , , .? i m an attractive and appropnate manner, and from his own observation, the spread of German supremacyamong the Wends. His chroiucle comes down to IITU. Among the letters of this period still extant, tliose of Bernardof Clairaux and Wibald, abbot of Stablo and Corvei, take a fore-most place for the history of Lothah, and especially of Conrad III.. CHAPTER II. THE REFORM OF THE HIERARCHY OF THE MEDIAEVAL CHURCH, THROUGH GREGORY VII., AND THE REVOLUTION OF THE PRINCES IN GERMANY. (A.D 1O5G-I077.) TWICE — under Otto the Great, and again under Henry III.—wa.s the Roman church raised from the deepest debasement bya German king. In the reformation of Otto the political motive andspirit ruled; in that of Henry, the spiritual and ideal element pre-dominated. Therefore the former movement had no inherent dura-bility, and soon collapsed, leaving conthtions worse than before.The latter, ojjerating from within, inspired by the fiery zeal of theCluniac reformers, and supported by the vast power of the greatestGerman emperor, showed unquenchable vitality, and advanced logi-cally to results alike unexpected by its initiators and disastrous tothe imperial power. A church which realized the ideal of the Clu-niacs could not endure subordination to the secular jtower, but muststrive first for emancipation from it, and then for supremacy overhistoryofallnati09wrig