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A Source Book of Mediæval History

Note 393 — Chapter XVI · THE CONFLICT OVER INVESTITURE

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That is, the Emperor was to be allowed to invest the new bishop or abbot with the fiefs and secular powers by a touch of the scepter, but his old claim to the right of investment with the spiritual emblems of ring and crozier was denied.

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