[d] Victor Duruy, Histoire du Moyen Age.

[e] O. J. Reichel, The See of Rome in the Middle Ages.

[f] J. Bass Mullinger, article on “Popedom,” in the Encyclopædia Britannica.

[g] Henry Stebbing, History of the Christian Church.

[h] John Wm. Draper, History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.

[i] Gregory of Tours, Annales Francorum.

[j] Andreas Thiel, Epistolæ Romanorum Pontificorum.

[k] Gregory the Great, Letters and Dialogues.

[l] Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Chapter II. “The Night of the Papacy”—Charlemagne to Otto the Great