... Constantine the Fifth, the union of civil and Part III. 21 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol 5 The Project Gutenberg EBook The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, v5 #5 in our series by Edward ... the office of champion of the Roman church; and the zeal of the French prince appears to have been prompted by the love of glory and religion. But the danger wason the banks of the Tyber, the ... of advocate of the Roman church. The dregs of the Carlovingian race no longer exhibitedany symptoms of virtue or power, and the ridiculous epithets of the bard, the stammerer, the fat, and the simple,...