Examples of ecclesiastic in the following topics:
-
- As emperor, Charlemagne stood out for his many reforms—monetary, governmental, military, cultural, and ecclesiastical—and ushered in an era known as the Carolingian Renaissance.
- As emperor, Charlemagne stood out for his many reforms—monetary, governmental, military, cultural, and ecclesiastical.
- Beyond their efforts to write better Latin, to copy and preserve patristic and classical texts, and to develop a more legible, classicizing script, the secular and ecclesiastical leaders of the Carolingian Renaissance applied rational ideas to social issues for the first time in centuries, providing a common language and writing style that allowed for communication across most of Europe.
- His authority was now extended over church and state; he could discipline clerics, control ecclesiastical property, and define orthodox doctrine.
- It was called for three reasons: to gather the Frankish host to go on campaign, to discuss political and ecclesiastical matters affecting the kingdom and legislate for them, and to make judgements.
-
- Although the papacy eventually emerged supreme in ecclesiastical matters by the Fifth Council of the Lateran (1511), it was dogged by continued accusations of corruption, most famously in the person of Pope Alexander VI, who was accused variously of simony, nepotism and fathering four children.
- The Counter-Reformation was a comprehensive effort composed of four major elements, ecclesiastical or structural reconfigurations, new religious orders (such as the Jesuits), spiritual movements, and political reform.
-
- The Corpus forms the basis of Latin jurisprudence (including ecclesiastical Canon Law) and, for historians, provides a valuable insight into the concerns and activities of the later Roman Empire.
- It was "received" or imitated as private law and its public law content was quarried for arguments by both secular and ecclesiastical authorities.
-
- Otto's assumption of this ecclesiastical power brought him into close contact with the best-educated and ablest class of men in his kingdom.
- Both secular law and canon law, or ecclesiastical law, were studied in the High Middle Ages.
-
- While concentrated on establishing a modern, centralized state in Sicily, he was mostly absent from Germany and issued far-reaching privileges to Germany's secular and ecclesiastical princes.
- The second class, the Council of Princes, consisted of the other princes, and was divided into two "benches," one for secular rulers and one for ecclesiastical ones.
- In the common case of a prince-bishop, this temporal territory (called a prince-bishopric) frequently overlapped with his often-larger ecclesiastical diocese, giving the bishop both civil and clerical powers.
-
- In 1721, he established the Holy Synod (originally the Ecclesiastical College)
that replaced patriarchy altogether.
- Furthermore,
a new ecclesiastic educational system was begun under Peter.
-
- Being well disposed towards the church and papacy on account of their ecclesiastical upbringing, Pepin and Carloman continued their father's work supporting Saint Boniface in reforming the Frankish church and evangelizing the Saxons.
- He reformed the legislation of the Franks and continued the ecclesiastical reforms of Boniface.
-
- The doctrine had the most significance in the relationship between the church and the temporal state, in matters such as ecclesiastic privileges, the actions of monarchs, and even successions.
- This attack spawned the protracted civil and ecclesiastical strife in Germany and Italy known as the Investiture Controversy.
-
- According to Hobbes, the sovereign must control civil, military, judicial, and ecclesiastical powers.
-
- Erasmus wrote both on ecclesiastic subjects and those of general human interest.