DR. J. J. I. VON DÖLLINGER'S FABLES RESPECTING THE POPES IN THE MIDDLE AGES, TRANSLATED BY ALFRED PLUMMER, Together with Dr. Döllinger's Essay on THE PROPHETIC SPIRIT AND THE PROPHECIES OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA, TRANSLATED FOR THE AMERICAN EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY B. SMITH, D. D., DODD & MEAD, No. 762, BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by DODD & MEAD, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. INTRODUCTION. Dr. von Döllinger's Fables about the Popes in the Middle Ages was published more than ten years ago; the fruit, as the author says, of preparatory studies upon a larger work, the general History of the Papacy. The growing importance of all subjects bearing upon the development of the papal system, and the high reputation of Dr. Döllinger as a theologian and as the leader of the so-called Old Catholic party in Germany, led to its translation last year in England by Mr. Alfred Plummer, a Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Oxford, and a pupil and personal friend of the author. In the present edition that translation is retained, here and there, revised from a comparison with the original. Mr. Plummer added. the Appendices B to F, and also wrote a long and interesting Introduction to the English edition, giving a general review of the main topics of the work. This 1 Die Papst-Fabeln des Mittelalters. Ein Beitrag zur Kirchengeschichte von Joh. Jos. Ign. v. Döllinger. Zweite unveränderte Auflage. München, 1863. Literarisch-artistische Anstalt der J. G Cotta' schen Buchhandlung. |