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It has been said that the two great ideas that the Age of Antiquity bequeathed were those of a world religion and a world monarchy; that the doctrine of the unity of God required the unity of the community of those faithful to him, a Holy Empire, one universal temporal state to control and promote that spiritual unity.1
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Alcock, A. (1998). The Papacy and the Foundation of the Holy Roman Empire 700–1000ad. In: A Short History of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-50093-8_4
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