The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶22

The restoration of the Western empire by Charlemagne was speedily followed by the separation of the Greek and Latin churches. A religious and national animosity still divides the two largest communions of the Christian world; and the schism of Constantinople,

Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #736 (Milman edition) — public domain
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