Assertion: monarchy's role | /r/HasSubevent | monarchs ruling
Facets:
value: in the early modern period
type: TEMPORAL
value: by the grace of god
type: OTHER
value: in the christian middle ages
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The role of the Roman emperor as the protector of Christianity led eventually to monarchs ruling 'by the Grace of God' in the Christian Middle Ages, only later in the Early modern period there being a conflation of (increased) power with these sacral aspects held by the Germanic kings bringing forth the notion of the "divine right of kings".