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  1. A forged 8th-century document purporting to
  2. record the Roman emperor Constantine's
  3. surrender of temporal sovereignty in W Europe
  4. to Pope Sylvester I (314-25). In the Middle
  5. Ages, this document was used as papal
  6. propaganda in the struggle between pope and
  7. emperor, which was at its most heated during
  8. the Investiture Contest. It was finally
  9. exposed as forged by Nicholas of Cusa and
  10. Lorenzo Valla in the 15th century.
  11.