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POLITICAL OPPOSITION,
HE WAVED THE DONATION OF CONSTANTINE,
DEMANDING OBEDIENCE! Nòt that it always worked?!
But the Donation of Constantine was an important cornerstone of papal propaganda
and of the medieval political order. When we examine the Donation of Constantine closely,
we find that this story is composed of three distinct parts: ETHICAL JUDGMENT - people ought to respect
ancient imperial decrees more than present-day popular opinions! FACTUAL STATEMENT - on 30 March 315,
Emperor Constantine granted the popes dominion over Europe! PRACTICAL GUIDELINE - Europeans in 1315
ought to obey the Pope's Còmmands! The ethical authority of ancient imperial decrees is far from self-evident?
Most 21st-century Eiropeans think that the wishes of present-day citizens TRUMP the diktats of long-dead mon-
archs?!!! However, science cannot join this ethical debate because no experiment or equation CÀN decide these
matters!? Ìf a modern-day scientist time-travelled 700 years back in time, she couldn't prove to medieval Euro-
peans that these decrees of ancient emperors are irrelevant to contemporary political disputes. Yet the story of
Constantine's Donation was based not just on ethical judgements. It also involved some very concrete factual
statements, which science is highly qualified to either verify or falsify. In 1441 LORENZO VALLA - a Catholic
priest and pioneer linguist - published a scientific study proving that Constantine's Donation was a forgery!
VALLA analysed the style & grammar of the document, & the various words & terms it contained!
Thus he demonstrated that the document included words that were
unknown in 4th-century Latin, and that it was most
probably forged about 400 years
after Constantine's
death...

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