HISTORY

OP

THE DECLINE AND FALL

OF THE

ROMAN EMPIRE.

BY

EDWARD GIBBON, ESQ.

With Lates,

BY THE REV. H. H. MILMAN,
PREBENDARY OF ST. PETER'S, AND RECTOR OF ST. MARGARET'S,

WESTMINSTER.

A New Edition,

TO WHICH IS ADDED

A COMPLETE INDEX OF THE WHOLE WORK.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. V.

BOSTON:

PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY.

STEREOTYPED AT THE

BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

GIFT

CONTENTS

DG311
G4

1850

v.5

OF THE FIFTH VOLUME.

CHAPTER XLIX.

INTRODUCTION, WORSHIP, AND PERSECUTION OF IMAGES.-REVOLT OF

ITALY AND ROME. TEMPORAL DOMINION OF THE POPES.

CONQUEST

OF ITALY BY THE FRANKS. ESTABLISHMENT OF IMAGES. CHARAC-

TER AND CORONATION OF CHARLEMAGNE. RESTORATION AND DECAY

OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST. INDEPENDENCE OF ITALY.-

CONSTITUTION OF THE GERMANIC BODY.

A. D.

Introduction of Images into the Christian Church,.

Their Worship,................

The Image of Edessa,

Its Copies,.

Opposition to Image-Worship,..........

726-840. Leo the Iconoclast, and his Successors,.

754. Their Synod of Constantinople,

......

726-775. Their Persecution of the Images and Monks,

751, 753, 768. Pepin and Charlemagne, Kings of France,.

Donations of Pepin and Charlemagne to the Popes,.

Forgery of the Donation of Constantine,....

36

37

780. Restoration of Images in the East by the Empress Irene,..

787. VIIth General Council, IId of Nice,.............

842. Final Establishment of Images by the Empress Theodora,...... 38

794. Reluctance of the Franks and of Charlemagne,

39

774-800. Final Separation of the Popes from the Eastern Empire,.... 40
800. Coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor of Rome and of the West, 42

461

55

962. Otho, King of Germany, restores and appropriates the Western

Empire,...

Transactions of the Western and Eastern Empires,............ 56

800-1060. Authority of the Emperors in the Elections of the Popes,. 58

Disorders,......

1073. Reformation and Claims of the Church,.

Authority of the Emperors in Rome,

932. Revolt of Alberic,

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814-1250. Independence of the Princes of Germany,...

1250. The Germanic Constitution,........

1347-1378. Weakness and Poverty of the German Emperor Charles

IV..........

1356. His Ostentation,....

Contrast of the Power and Modesty of Augustus,

CHAPTER L.

DESCRIPTION OF ARABIA AND ITS INHABITANTS. BIRTH, CHARACTER,

AND DOCTRINE OF MAHOMET. —HE PREACHES AT MECCA.- FLIES TO

MEDINA, PROPAGATES HIS RELIGION BY THE SWORD. - VOLUNTARY

OR RELUCTANT SUBMISSION OF THE ARABS. HIS DEATH AND SUC-

CESSORS. THE CLAIMS AND FORTUNES OF ALI AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

Description of Arabia,

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