TY - JOUR
AU - Blumenthal, Uta-Renate
AB - Medieval of Italian territorial development, is at the same time what we know about the Roman and other slave a very daring and an almost hopeless undertaking Systems. WILLIAM D. PHILLIPS, JR. given the innumerable earlier attempts by the most outstanding scholars of their time. Undaunted, the San Diego State University author pursues the various strands of argumenta- tion and presents a synthesis of earlier thought and facts to support his own arguments. Inevitably, the unwary reader may sometimes be MEDIEVAL misled, especially when references in the footnotes are quoted out of their original context. An example THOMAS F. X. NOBLE. The Republic of St. Peter: The Birth of the Papal State, 680-825. (The Middle Ages.) is Noble's and Theodor Schieffer's evaluations of Pope Zachary, the last Greek on the papal throne. In Philadc1)hia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Winfried-Bonifatius Schieffer secs Zachary as a deeply 1981 Pp'. xxix, 374. $35.00. loyal subject of the Byzantine empire, who was This study deals with an important subject that has obliged by contemporary events to negotiate with largely been the preserve of German and French the Lombards. By contrast, Noble sees Zachary as an independent sovereign by intent and, thus, an op- 
TI - thomas f. x. noble. The Republic of St. Peter: The Birth of the Papal State, 680–825. (The Middle Ages.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Pres ...
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/91.1.89
DA - 1986-02-01
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SP - 89
EP - 89
VL - 91
IS - 1
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