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Definition of Investitures
1. investiture [n] - See also: investiture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Investitures
Literary usage of Investitures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Power of the Pope During the Middle Ages by Jean Edme Auguste Gosselin (1853)
"Subject of the Contest about the Investitures.—Importance of thit Question.
After these preliminary notices, it is important to remark, that the controversy ..."
2. An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain by Jeremy Collier (1840)
"... that if he maintained the Church in her liberty, and dropped the contest about
investitures, he might depend upon the friendship of the see of Rome; ..."
3. The Medieval Empire by Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher (1898)
"The principle thrives and develops during the Wars of the Investitures, ...
For the War of the Investitures, if we may call a long discontinuous series of ..."
4. An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Chiefly of England: From the by Jeremy Collier (1840)
"... that if he maintained the Church in her liberty, and dropped the contest about
investitures, he might depend upon the friendship of the see of Rome; ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"Ix.] le origin and nature of the papal investitures are ably discussed by Giannone
Civile di Napoli, torn. ii. p. 37-49, 57-66) as a lawyer and antiquarian, ..."
6. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce Bryce (1907)
"... and so condemned the whole system of the feudal investitures of land to the
clergy, he aimed a deadly blow at the authority of every secular ruler. ..."
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