Europe, 476-918: Period IMacmillan, 1894 - 532 էջ |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 50–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 16
... crossed at Singidunum and set out to march across Pannonia . But they soon meet with opposition ; Traustila , king of the Gepidae , who now occupied both banks of the mid - Danube , came out against them with his host to prevent them ...
... crossed at Singidunum and set out to march across Pannonia . But they soon meet with opposition ; Traustila , king of the Gepidae , who now occupied both banks of the mid - Danube , came out against them with his host to prevent them ...
Էջ 26
... crossed the Cottian Alps , and fell on Burgundy ; another entered Provence , and smote the Frank and Burgundian besiegers of Arles . With his usual good fortune , Theodoric recovered all Gaul south of the Durance and the Cevennes ( 509 ) ...
... crossed the Cottian Alps , and fell on Burgundy ; another entered Provence , and smote the Frank and Burgundian besiegers of Arles . With his usual good fortune , Theodoric recovered all Gaul south of the Durance and the Cevennes ( 509 ) ...
Էջ 42
... crossing the Albanian mountains , and captured 2000 waggons and 5000 Gothic warriors . But Sabinianus made himself too much feared by Zeno , who , on a suspicion ci treachery , had him executed in the following year . It was not till ...
... crossing the Albanian mountains , and captured 2000 waggons and 5000 Gothic warriors . But Sabinianus made himself too much feared by Zeno , who , on a suspicion ci treachery , had him executed in the following year . It was not till ...
Էջ 49
... crossed the Danube and pressed over the desolated plains of Moesia to assail Thrace . More than once the Bulgarians defeated a Roman army in the field , and their ravages were at last pushed so far southward that Anastasius built in 512 ...
... crossed the Danube and pressed over the desolated plains of Moesia to assail Thrace . More than once the Bulgarians defeated a Roman army in the field , and their ravages were at last pushed so far southward that Anastasius built in 512 ...
Էջ 62
... crossed the Loire , and met the Visigoths and their king on the Campus Vocladensis , the plain of Vouglé , near Poictiers . Whether from cowardice , or from distrust of his own generalship , Alaric held back from fighting , but his army ...
... crossed the Loire , and met the Visigoths and their king on the Campus Vocladensis , the plain of Vouglé , near Poictiers . Whether from cowardice , or from distrust of his own generalship , Alaric held back from fighting , but his army ...
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
Agilulf Alps Anastasius Aquitaine Arian army Arnulf attack Austrasia Avars Baduila battle Bavaria Belisarius Benevento bishops brother Brunhildis Burgundian Burgundy caliph Carloman century Charles Charles the Bald Charles the Fat chief Childebert Chilperich Chlodovech Chlothar Chlothar III Chosroes Christian Church conquered conquest Constantine Constantinople count crown Danes Danube death defeated died duchy duke East East-Roman eastern emperor empire enemies exarch father fell force Frankish empire Frankish realm Franks frontier garrison Gaul Germany Gothic Goths Gregory hands Heraclius homage imperial invaders invasion Isaurian Italy Justinian king kingdom land Leovigild Lewis Liutprand Lombard Lothair Mayor Merovings Moslem murder Neustria Odoacer once Ostrogoths palace Pavia peace peninsula Persian Pippin Pope prince provinces ravages Ravenna rebellion rebels Reccared reign Roman Rome royal ruler Saracen Saxons seized sent siege Slavs Spain Suabia Teutonic Theodoric Theudebert Theuderich throne took tribes troubles Vandal vassals Vikings Visigothic wars West whole Witiges Zeno
Սիրված հատվածներ
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.