Sentences with 'edicts'
Example sentences and phrases with the word edicts and other words derived from it.
• « In addition to the edicts and councils convened by the popes, the Catholic Reformation benefited from the revival of Catholic religious orders. By far the most important new religious order was the Society of Jesus, better known as the Jesuits. »
• « When Parliament tried to challenge their edicts, including the king's efforts to impose taxes without Parliament's consent, Charles I suspended Parliament in 1629 and ruled without it for the next eleven years. »