ISBN: 9781234993443

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Excerpt: ... Roma… Altro …

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Excerpt: ... Romans did not materially diminish its functions, but put them into commission, by entrusting them to two consuls of equal authority elected annually. The Greeks, on the other hand, divided the royal functions among different officers, as e. g. at Athens among the nine archons.1 The typical kingship in mediaeval Europe, after the full development of the feudal system, was very different indeed from the kingship in early Greece and Rome. In the Middle Ages Mediaswi all priestly functions had passed into king8hipthe hands of the Church.2 A king like Charles VTL of France, or Edward III. of England, was military commander, civil magistrate, chief judge, and supreme landlord; the people were his tenants. That was the kind of king with which the Spanish discoverers of Mexico were familiar. Now the Mexican tiacatecuhtii, or chief-ofmen, was much more like Agamemnon in point of kingship than like Edward HL He was not supreme landlord, for landlordship did not exist in Mexico. He was not chief judge or civil magistrate; those functions belonged to the snakewoman. Mr. Bandelier regards the chief -ofmen as simply a military commander; but for reasons which I shall state hereafter,1 it 1 It is worthy of note that the archon who retained the priestly function waa called basileus, showing perhaps that at that time this had come to be most prominent among the royal functions, or more likely that it was the one with which reformers had some religions scruples about interfering. The Romans, too, retained part of the king''s priestly function in an officer called rex sacrorum, whose duty was at times to offer a sacrifice in the forum, and then run away as fast as legs could carry him, -- V O''lffas A Pcuriftis, fcaixk Toxdegs &irfun John Fiske, Books, History, The Discovery Of America (volume 1, Pt. 1); With Some Account Of Ancient America And The Spanish Conquest Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781234993443

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Excerpt: ... Roma… Altro …

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Excerpt: ... Romans did not materially diminish its functions, but put them into commission, by entrusting them to two consuls of equal authority elected annually. The Greeks, on the other hand, divided the royal functions among different officers, as e. g. at Athens among the nine archons.1 The typical kingship in mediaeval Europe, after the full development of the feudal system, was very different indeed from the kingship in early Greece and Rome. In the Middle Ages Mediaswi all priestly functions had passed into king8hipthe hands of the Church.2 A king like Charles VTL of France, or Edward III. of England, was military commander, civil magistrate, chief judge, and supreme landlord; the people were his tenants. That was the kind of king with which the Spanish discoverers of Mexico were familiar. Now the Mexican tiacatecuhtii, or chief-ofmen, was much more like Agamemnon in point of kingship than like Edward HL He was not supreme landlord, for landlordship did not exist in Mexico. He was not chief judge or civil magistrate; those functions belonged to the snakewoman. Mr. Bandelier regards the chief -ofmen as simply a military commander; but for reasons which I shall state hereafter,1 it 1 It is worthy of note that the archon who retained the priestly function waa called basileus, showing perhaps that at that time this had come to be most prominent among the royal functions, or more likely that it was the one with which reformers had some religions scruples about interfering. The Romans, too, retained part of the king''s priestly function in an officer called rex sacrorum, whose duty was at times to offer a sacrifice in the forum, and then run away as fast as legs could carry him, -- V O''lffas A Pcuriftis, fcaixk Toxdegs &irfun John Fiske, Books, History, The Discovery Of America (volume 1, Pt. 1); With Some Account Of Ancient America And The Spanish Conquest Books>History <