Europe, 476-918: Period IMacmillan, 1894 - 532 էջ |
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Էջ 42
... marched westward to ravage Macedonia up to the very gates of Thessalonica . Zeno sent his troops into winter - quarters , as the season was late , and made one final attempt to stave off the impending danger by offering terms to ...
... marched westward to ravage Macedonia up to the very gates of Thessalonica . Zeno sent his troops into winter - quarters , as the season was late , and made one final attempt to stave off the impending danger by offering terms to ...
Էջ 63
... marched against Toulouse , the Gothic capital , and took it , and with it the great hoard of the Visi- gothic kings , including many of the Roman trophies that Alaric and Ataulf had carried off from Italy a hundred years before ...
... marched against Toulouse , the Gothic capital , and took it , and with it the great hoard of the Visi- gothic kings , including many of the Roman trophies that Alaric and Ataulf had carried off from Italy a hundred years before ...
Էջ 69
... marched on Daras , where they were met by Belisarius , who had lately been appointed commander - in - chief in the East . Under the walls of Daras the decisive battle of the war was fought , in which Belisarius , with 25,000 men ...
... marched on Daras , where they were met by Belisarius , who had lately been appointed commander - in - chief in the East . Under the walls of Daras the decisive battle of the war was fought , in which Belisarius , with 25,000 men ...
Էջ 78
... marching out to finish the campaign , Geilamir resolved to take the offensive himself . Descending from the hills he marched on Carthage , and met the Roman army at Tricameron , twenty miles westward of the city . Here Belisarius won a ...
... marching out to finish the campaign , Geilamir resolved to take the offensive himself . Descending from the hills he marched on Carthage , and met the Roman army at Tricameron , twenty miles westward of the city . Here Belisarius won a ...
Էջ 82
... marched on Ravenna with all the rest . The moment that he was departed Belisarius moved northward to attack the imperial city . It fell into his hands without a blow ; 536 . the Gothic garrison felt that they were left 82 European ...
... marched on Ravenna with all the rest . The moment that he was departed Belisarius moved northward to attack the imperial city . It fell into his hands without a blow ; 536 . the Gothic garrison felt that they were left 82 European ...
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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.