Part 15 (1/2)
[134] See above, p 90, note 1
[135] In the canon law, _Decretal Greg lib i, tit 6, cap 4_ The decretal forbids the bestowing of the pallium (see above, p 89, note 3) on an archbishop elect, until he shall first have sworn allegiance to the Holy See
[136] The induction of Church officials into office The terreater offices--those of bishop and abbot These offices carried with them the enjoyment of certain incomes, and the possession of certain teht of investiture was a bone of contention between popes and ees
[137] Especially in the time of the Emperors Henry IV and V (1056-1125)
[138] The Geres as a continuation of the Roht to crown an eative of the pope; until the pope bestowed the i of the Ro lib i, tit 33, cap 6_
[140] In the treatise, _Resolutio Lutheriana super propositione XIII, de potestate papae_ (1520) _Wei_, Ill, pp 293 ff
[141] See p 70
[142] cf _The Papacy at Rome_, Vol I, pp 357 f
[143] A decree of Pope Clement V of 1313, incorporated subsequently in the canon law, _Cleed docu to come from the hand of the Emperor Constantine (306-337) The Donation conveyed to the pope title to the city of Rome (the capital had been removed to Constantinople), certain lands in Italy and ”the islands of the sea”
It was used by the popes of the Middle Ages to support their claienuineness was not disputed In 1440, however, Laurentius Valla, an Italian humanist, published a work in which he proved that the Donation was a forgery This as republished in Germany by Ulrich von Hutten in 1517, and seems to have come to Luther's attention in the early part of 1520, just before the composition of the present treatise (C Enders II, 332) Luther subsequently (1537) issued an annotated translation of the text of the Donation (_Erl Ed_, XXV, pp 176 ff)
[145] The papal claidom, which comprised the island of Sicily and certain territories in Southern Italy, goes back to the XI Century, and was steadily asserted during the whole of the later Middle Ages It was one of the questions at issue in the conflict between the Emperor Frederick II (1200-1260) and the popes, and played an important part in the history of the stormy times which followed the all of the Hohenstaufen The popes claidoiance to the Holy See The right to the kingdom was at this time contested between the royal houses of France and of Spain, of which latter house the Emperor Charles V was the head
[146] The popes clainty over a strip of territory in Italy, beginning at Ro in a northeasterly direction across the peninsula to a point on the Adriatic south of Venice, including the cities and lands which Luther mentions This formed the so-called ”States of the Church” The attenty effective involved Popes Alexander VI (1492-1503) and Julius II (1503-1513) in war and entangled them in political alliances with the European powers and petty Italian states It resulted at last in actual war between Pope Clee _Modern History_, I, 104-143; 219-252, and literature cited pp
706-713; 727 f
[147] A free translation of the Vulgate, _Ne of the pope's feet was a part of the ”adoration”
which he claiht See above, p 108
[149] The three paragraphs enclosed in brackets were added by Luther to the 2d edition; see Introduction, p 59
[150] The holy places of Roe, and the practice had been zealously fostered by the popes through the institution of the ”golden” or ”jubilee years” Cf Vol
I, p 18, and below, p 114
[151] Cf the Italian proverb, ”God is everywhere except at Ro in _Vadiscus_: ”Three things there are which those who go to Ro home with them, a bad conscience, a ruined sto, IV, p 169)
[153] The ”golden” or ”jubilee years” were the years when special rewards were attached to worshi+p at the shrines of Rome The custom was instituted by Boniface VIII in 1300, and it was the intention to make every hundredth year a jubilee In 1343 the interval between jubilees was fixed at fifty, in 1389 at thirty-three, in 1473 at twenty-five years Cf Vol I, p 18
[154] Cf the statements in the _Treatise on Baptism_ and the _Discussion of Confession_, Vol I, pp 68 ff, 98
[155] The houses, or ”