I'm currently reading a history of Africa in the Middle Ages and having a little trouble parsing it.
"The matter was urgent since, following a muddled episode involving ecclesiastical usurpation and dynastic crisis, the Ethiopian monarch had been forced to hand the future of his church over to a man who possessed only one of the requirements for leading it—the totally insufficient one of being Egyptian—and whose appointment had never been confirmed by the patriarch."
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Oh.
6 phrases in one sentence.
It's not a problem. It's good writing. But it's not something I can read in the background. I'll have to focus on this one.
Fauvelle, François-Xavier, The Golden Rhinoceros
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