Europe, 476-918: Period IMacmillan, 1894 - 532 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 87–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... attacked their unguarded camp . After suffering a defeat , the coward Basiliscus drew off his armament , and the Vandal , saved as by a miracle , could breathe again . The last ten years of Gaiseric's reign were filled with count- less ...
... attacked their unguarded camp . After suffering a defeat , the coward Basiliscus drew off his armament , and the Vandal , saved as by a miracle , could breathe again . The last ten years of Gaiseric's reign were filled with count- less ...
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... attack them the king died , smitten , if the Catholic chroniclers are to be believed , by the same horrid disease which made an end of Herod Agrippa . His eldest and only grown - up son , Hildecat , had died before him , and the Vandals ...
... attack them the king died , smitten , if the Catholic chroniclers are to be believed , by the same horrid disease which made an end of Herod Agrippa . His eldest and only grown - up son , Hildecat , had died before him , and the Vandals ...
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... attack the king of the Visigoths . Theodoric strove unsuc- cessfully to prevent both wars , and was not a little displeased when , in 507 , his brother - in - law Chlodovech overran southern Gaul , and slew his son - in - law Alaric in ...
... attack the king of the Visigoths . Theodoric strove unsuc- cessfully to prevent both wars , and was not a little displeased when , in 507 , his brother - in - law Chlodovech overran southern Gaul , and slew his son - in - law Alaric in ...
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... attacked Burgundy . He con- quered , and took as his share of the spoil the lands between Durance and Drôme , with the cities of Avignon , Orange , and Viviers , the farthest extension to the north - west of the Ostro- gothic empire ...
... attacked Burgundy . He con- quered , and took as his share of the spoil the lands between Durance and Drôme , with the cities of Avignon , Orange , and Viviers , the farthest extension to the north - west of the Ostro- gothic empire ...
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... attacked by a rebellious party , headed by Theodoric's sister , the queen- dowager Amalafrida , who wished to proclaim as king of Africa one of her late husband's nephews . Hilderic had the better of the fighting , defeated the rebels ...
... attacked by a rebellious party , headed by Theodoric's sister , the queen- dowager Amalafrida , who wished to proclaim as king of Africa one of her late husband's nephews . Hilderic had the better of the fighting , defeated the rebels ...
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Էջ 206 - Shahrbarz forced his way across the sands of the isthmus of Suez, and attacked Egypt, the one Roman province which had not seen the horrors of war for three centuries. The unwarlike Egyptians submitted with hardly a blow ; many of the heretical sects that swarmed in the Nile valley even welcomed the Persians as friends and deliverers. The loss of Egypt seemed a deathblow to the empire. It had been of late the chief source of revenue to the dwindling treasury of Heraclius, and on its corn the multitude...
Էջ 454 - ... and discipline. Six of the articles only dealt with small ritual matters, such as the observance of Lent and the shaving of the clergy. But the third, which denounced the enforced celibacy of the priesthood as a snare of Satan, and the seventh, which condemned the Roman doctrine as to the procession of the Holy Ghost, were all-important. The Eastern Church now formally stated that the Western Church, by declaring that the Holy Spirit proceeded both from the Father and the Son, fell into ' a heresy...
Էջ 64 - In 511 this sanguinary ruffian, murderer, and traitor died, just after he had presided at Orleans over a synod of thirty-two Gaulish bishops who were anxious to repress Arianism, and gladly called in the secular arm of their orthodox lord to their aid. Chlodovech was morally far the worst of all 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 21 - Roman, and taught both that he was no respecter of persons, but a judge set upon the throne to deal out even-handed justice. Alone among all rulers, Roman or German, in his day, he was a believer without tending in the least to become a persecutor. No monarch for a thousand years to come could have been found to echo Theodoric's magnificent declaration that 'religion is a thing which the king cannot command, because no man can be compelled to believe against his will.
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.