History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireSimon and Schuster, 18. jan. 2013 - 398 sider Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries. |
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... Christianity, the constitution of the Catholic church, the ruin of Paganism, and the sects that arose from the ... Christians were possessed with an unconquerable repugnance to the use and abuse of images; and this aversion may be ...
... Christianity, the constitution of the Catholic church, the ruin of Paganism, and the sects that arose from the ... Christians were possessed with an unconquerable repugnance to the use and abuse of images; and this aversion may be ...
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... Christians were ignorant of the genuine features of the Son of God, his mother, and his apostles: the statue of ... Christian artists could only be guided by the clandestine imitation of some heathen model. In this distress, a bold and ...
... Christians were ignorant of the genuine features of the Son of God, his mother, and his apostles: the statue of ... Christian artists could only be guided by the clandestine imitation of some heathen model. In this distress, a bold and ...
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... Christians. The Olympian Jove, created by the muse of Homer and the chisel of Phidias, might inspire a philosophic ... Christianity, they had restored the religion of their fathers: they heard, with grief and impatience, the name of ...
... Christians. The Olympian Jove, created by the muse of Homer and the chisel of Phidias, might inspire a philosophic ... Christianity, they had restored the religion of their fathers: they heard, with grief and impatience, the name of ...
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... Christians, who appealed to the evidence of texts, of facts, and of the primitive times, and secretly desired the reformation of the church. As the worship of images had never been established by any general or positive law, its ...
... Christians, who appealed to the evidence of texts, of facts, and of the primitive times, and secretly desired the reformation of the church. As the worship of images had never been established by any general or positive law, its ...
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... Christianity and a renewal of Paganism; that all such monuments of idolatry should be broken or erased; and that those ... Christians had wandered far away from the simplicity of the gospel: nor was it easy for them to discern the clew ...
... Christianity and a renewal of Paganism; that all such monuments of idolatry should be broken or erased; and that those ... Christians had wandered far away from the simplicity of the gospel: nor was it easy for them to discern the clew ...
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Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants | |
Conquests By The Arabs | |
More Conquests By The Arabs | |
Fate Of The Eastern Empire | |
Origin And Doctrine Of The Paulicians | |
The Bulgarians The Hungarians And The Russians | |
The Saracens The Franks And The Normans | |
The Turks | |
The First Crusade | |
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