THE TITLE OF EMPEROR AND TRIED TO REVIVE THE OLD IDEAL

 

OF WORLD-EMPIRE

 

30. WHY THE PEOPLE OF THE TENTH CENTURY PRAYED THE LORD

 

TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE FURY OF THE NORSEMEN

 

31. HOW CENTRAL EUROPE, ATTACKED FROM THREE SIDES, BECAME

 

AN ARMED CAMP AND WHY EUROPE WOULD HAVE PERISHED

 

WITHOUT THOSE PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS AND ADMINISTRATORS

 

WHO WERE PART OF THE FEUDAL SYSTEM

 

32. CHIVALRY

 

33. THE STRANGE DOUBLE LOYALTY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE

 

AGES, AND HOW IT LED TO ENDLESS QUARRELS BETWEEN THE

 

POPES AND THE HOLY ROMAN EMPERORS

 

34. BUT ALL THESE DIFFERENT QUARRELS WERE FORGOTTEN WHEN