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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1940
Page
5
Hendrik Willem van Loon surveys the upheavals after Rome. He traces migrations, barbarian kingdoms, and shifting seats of power from Ravenna to Constantinople, noting how warfare and political change shaped early democracy.
In medieval Europe the Frankish king rose as protector of the church after the pope crowned him in 800. Rome’s bishops sought a worldly ruler to defend both realms, splitting power between a spiritual pope and a temporal emperor. The cycle shifts as democracy grows from feudal roots.
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