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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the investiture of the new County Supervisor
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Had he not himself acted thus after hearing the papal decree against lay investiture and clerical homage?
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If the main business was investiture and homage, a subsidiary theme was the primacy.
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It had no fiefs to be the subject of investiture , no peasant tenure, no peasant serfs.
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It said nothing about investiture or homage: these were matters for the pope.
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Lay investiture was symbolically objectionable as representing the quasi-sacerdotal position which had long been claimed by kings and emperors.
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The highlight of the evening, however, came after the speeches when the King made two investitures.
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The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture .