church-fomented

Updated: May 4, 2025

And even when such leagues were broken, they lived long enough to show that while the supposed peacemakers the kings, the emperors, and the Church-fomented discord, and were themselves helpless against the robber knights, it was from the cities that the impulse came for re-establishing peace and union. The cities not the emperors were the real makers of the national unity.

kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin - Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution