In His on the Falsely Believed and Forged Donation of Constantine

question 19

Multiple Choice

In his On the Falsely Believed and Forged Donation of Constantine, Valla proved that

• A)Emperor Constantine had, in fact, given the pope the western half of the Roman Empire to rule.
• B)while the document was authentic, spiritual and legal reasons made it invalid.
• C)the language in which the document was written indicated it was an eighth-century forgery.
• D)the matter of the document's authenticity is irrelevant.
• E)the document's use of diadem was not described correctly, and not in use at the time of the document.

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75th Percentile

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