Europe, 476-918Rivington, Percival & Company, 1895 - 532 էջ |
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... bishops of Rome , and declared war on the Rugians or the Vandals . In the few documents of his time that have survived , the name of Zeno is seldom mentioned , and in signing grants he styles himself Odovacar Rex , and not Odovacar ...
... bishops of Rome , and declared war on the Rugians or the Vandals . In the few documents of his time that have survived , the name of Zeno is seldom mentioned , and in signing grants he styles himself Odovacar Rex , and not Odovacar ...
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... bishops , and banished or imprisoned all whom he found already exist- ing in his dominions . Occasionally he put to death , and frequently he imprisoned or sold as slaves , prominent supporters of the orthodox faith . If martyrdoms were ...
... bishops , and banished or imprisoned all whom he found already exist- ing in his dominions . Occasionally he put to death , and frequently he imprisoned or sold as slaves , prominent supporters of the orthodox faith . If martyrdoms were ...
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... bishops of Rome , we do not find that he ever forced his own nominees on the clergy and people . Indeed , he was noted as a repressor of the alienation of church lands and of simony . Odoacer's foreign policy seems to have been limited ...
... bishops of Rome , we do not find that he ever forced his own nominees on the clergy and people . Indeed , he was noted as a repressor of the alienation of church lands and of simony . Odoacer's foreign policy seems to have been limited ...
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... bishops and open their churches . But these boons did not check the falling away of his subjects , and during his reign the Moors conquered from him the whole sea - coast from Tangiers to the gates of Caesarea . His brother Thrasamund ...
... bishops and open their churches . But these boons did not check the falling away of his subjects , and during his reign the Moors conquered from him the whole sea - coast from Tangiers to the gates of Caesarea . His brother Thrasamund ...
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... bishop of Rome to sail at once to Constantinople , and inform the emperor that further persecution would mean war with the Goths , and involve an attack on the orthodox throughout the Ostrogothic dominions . Moved by these threats ...
... bishop of Rome to sail at once to Constantinople , and inform the emperor that further persecution would mean war with the Goths , and involve an attack on the orthodox throughout the Ostrogothic dominions . Moved by these threats ...
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Էջ 206 - Have I not destroyed the Greeks ? You say that you trust in your God. Why has he not delivered out of my hand Caesarea, Jerusalem, and Alexandria?
Էջ 6 - Brittany, ..oo a!?oa rough confederacy of Celtic states. The Seine valley and the middle Loire formed a Romano-Gallic kingdom under Syagrius, the last governor who had acknowledged the supremacy of the empire beyond the Alps. The Cantabrians and Basques in their hills above the Bay of Biscay had preserved their independence against the Visigoths, just as their ancestors, five centuries before, had held out against the Roman conquerors of Spain. Lastly, there was still a fragment of territory on the...
Էջ 60 - God of his queen, and he cried, " Jesus Christ, whom Clotilda declares to be the Son of the living God, if Thou wilt grant me victory over these enemies, I will believe in Thee and be baptized in Thy name.
Էջ 339 - Theodoric himself, are but shadowy figures, whose outlines we can but dimly seize, but Charles stands before us firm and masterful, a living man, whom we can understand and admire. ' He was tall and stoutly built,' writes his chronicler, Einhard ; ' his height just seven times the length of his own foot. His head was round, his eyes large and lively, his nose somewhat above the common size, his expression bright and cheerful. Whether he stood or sat his form was full...
Էջ 407 - Neustrian dominions which had been left him, though the child of his father's declining years had been specially commended to his protection. But he did not follow up his threats by any prompt action against the young king, but went off to Germany to conclude the campaign against his war of the brother Lewis of Bavaria, which his dead father thr« brothers. had left half finished. But on arriving in Bavaria he did not strike down his enemy, but made a six months' truce with him, and returned to Neustria.
Էջ 207 - But I will pardon your faults if you will submit to me, and come hither with your wife and children, and I will give you lands, vineyards, and olive groves, and look upon you with a kindly aspect. Do not deceive yourself with vain hope in that Christ, who was not even able to save himself from the Jews, who killed him by nailing him to a cross.
Էջ 382 - It was but a short epitaph considering the mighty deeds of him who lay beneath, but no length of words could have done justice to his greatness. A far better memorial was left to him in the hearts of his subjects ; his name survived in the mouths...