Article: "Our Lord God's Chancery" in Magdeburg and its fight against the interim (1).

We, Lucifer, lord of darkness, ruler of deep sadness, emperor of the hellish cesspool, duke of the sulphuric waters, king of the cliff, and administrator of the hellish fire, to each and everyone in our realm, friends, bishops, prelates, cathedral canons, clergy, and all others of whatever dignity and the state you may be in: our greetings. (2)

With this cannon shot from Middle Earth, "from our dark palace where there is no order but eternal weeping and gnashing of teeth," (3) Lucifer greeted the ecclesiastical recipients of his letter. In it he noted that he had reached the high point of his hegemonic career during the time of the great western schism. This ...

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