Labels:text | collectable OCR: EdiAEVAL SOVEREIGNS SEEMED TO ACT AS IF THERE WAS A MYSTERIOUS AGREEMENT BETWEEN THEM AND God, which GAVE THEM ENDLESS POWERS ON EARTH AND disCHARGEd THEM OF All RESPONSIBILITY. FRATRICidE, INFANTiCidE, widE-SCALE ASSASSINATION, - ANYTHING WAS ALLOWED if YOU WERE A RULER. THAT WAS HOW THE PRINCIPLE of AUTHORITY WAS UNDERSTOOD IN THE Middle AGES, AND WHY IN ACCORDANCE with This idEA. PRINCES did EXACTLY AS THEY PLEASEd.