[129] A papal bull published annually at Rome on Holy Thursday. It was directed against heretics, but to the condemnation of the heretics and their heresies was added a list of offences which could receive absolution only from the pope, or by his authorisation. In 1522 Luther translated this bull into German as a New Year present for the pope (_Weimar Ed._, VIII, 691). On Luther's earlier utterances concerning it, see Kohler, _L. u. die Kg._, pp. 59 2. [130] The breve is a papal decree, of equal authority with the bull, but differing from it in form, and usually dealing with matters of smaller importance. [131] Cf. Luther's earlier statement to the same effect in _A Discussion of Confession_, Vol. I, pp. 96 f. [132] See above, p. 99. [133] The Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17). [134] See above, p. 90, note 1. [135] In the canon law, _Decretal. Greg. lib. i, tit. 6, cap. 4_. The decretal forbids the bestowing of the pallium (see above, p. 89, note 3) on an archbishop elect, until he shall first have sworn allegiance to the Holy See. [136] The induction of Church officials into office. The term was used particularly of the greater offices--those of bishop and abbot. These offices carried with them the enjoyment of certain incomes, and the possession of certain temporal powers. For this reason the right of investiture was a bone of contention between popes and emperors during the Middle Ages. [137] Especially in the time of the Emperors Henry IV and V (1056-1125). [138] The German Empire was regarded during the Middle Ages as a continuation of the Roman Empire. (See below, p. 153.) The right to crown an emperor was held to be the prerogative of the pope; until the pope bestowed the imperial crown, the emperor bore the title, "King of the Romans." [139] In the canon law, _Decretal. Greg. lib. i, tit. 33, cap. 6._ [140] In the treatise, _Resolutio Lutheriana super propositione XIII, de potestate papae_ (1520). _Weimar Ed._, II, pp. 217 ff.; _Erl. Ed., op. var. arg._, Ill, pp. 293 ff. [141] See p. 70. [142] cf. _The Papacy at Rome_, Vol. I, pp. 357 f. [143] A decree of Pope Clement V of 1313, incorporated subsequently in the canon law, _Clement, lib. ii, tit. 11, cap. 2._