Medieval Italy During a Thousand Years (305-1313): A Brief Historical Narrative with Chapters on Great Episodes and Personalities and on Subjects Connected with Religion, Art and Literature |
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... persuade us to call the ' Later Roman ' Empire , but which , seeing that ' Constantinopolitan ' is a long word , I think we had better call Byzantine especially as the word possesses a sufficient flavour of Orien- vi MEDIEVAL ITALY.
... persuade us to call the ' Later Roman ' Empire , but which , seeing that ' Constantinopolitan ' is a long word , I think we had better call Byzantine especially as the word possesses a sufficient flavour of Orien- vi MEDIEVAL ITALY.
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... Byzantines in Italy . It is also true that the Byzantine rulers claimed to be , and were often acknowledged to be , ' Roman ' Emperors.1 Moreover , it must be allowed that the history of this so - called Eastern Empire in its later ...
... Byzantines in Italy . It is also true that the Byzantine rulers claimed to be , and were often acknowledged to be , ' Roman ' Emperors.1 Moreover , it must be allowed that the history of this so - called Eastern Empire in its later ...
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... ( Byzantine - Ostrogothic ) . Note the ( further ) pulpit , with curious reliefs ( Ostrogothic ? Lombard ? ) of the evan- gelistic beasts , and surmounted by a Venetian ( Byzan- tine ) canopy . Note also the silver pala of the altar , and ...
... ( Byzantine - Ostrogothic ) . Note the ( further ) pulpit , with curious reliefs ( Ostrogothic ? Lombard ? ) of the evan- gelistic beasts , and surmounted by a Venetian ( Byzan- tine ) canopy . Note also the silver pala of the altar , and ...
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... Byzantine court of Theodosius II . Orestes flees to Ticinum ( later Pavia ) , which is captured and sacked . He escapes to Placentia ( Piacenza ) , but is there overtaken and slain . The life of Augustulus , who had taken refuge in ...
... Byzantine court of Theodosius II . Orestes flees to Ticinum ( later Pavia ) , which is captured and sacked . He escapes to Placentia ( Piacenza ) , but is there overtaken and slain . The life of Augustulus , who had taken refuge in ...
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... Byzantine model and copied from S. Vitale ( Ravenna ) , was built c . 560 , twenty years after this disaster , during Byzantine supremacy . 2 We shall find them reappearing a few years later ( 554 ) and sweeping in meteoric course ...
... Byzantine model and copied from S. Vitale ( Ravenna ) , was built c . 560 , twenty years after this disaster , during Byzantine supremacy . 2 We shall find them reappearing a few years later ( 554 ) and sweeping in meteoric course ...
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Page 61 - John 113 had constructed with his own hands an humble cell, in which he had dwelt above fifty years, without opening his door, without seeing the face of a woman, and without tasting any food that had been prepared by fire or any human art Five days of the week he spent in prayer and meditation, but on Saturdays and Sundays he regularly opened a small window, and gave audience to the crowd of suppliants who successively flowed from every part of the Christian world. The eunuch of Theodosius approached...
Page 68 - The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed; the waters were then restored to their natural channel, and the secret spot, where the remains of Alaric had been deposited, was for ever concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners who had been employed to execute the work" See The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol.
Page 68 - Busentinus, a small river that washes the walls of Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed ; the waters were then restored to their natural channel, and the secret spot where the remains of Alaric had been deposited, was for ever concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners who had been employed to execute the work.
Page 31 - Arras, Amiens, experienced the cruel oppression of the German yoke; and the consuming flames of war spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps, and the Pyrenees, was delivered to the Barbarians, who drove before them, in a promiscuous crowd, the bishop, the senator, and the virgin, laden with the spoils of their houses and altars.
Page 90 - AD] astonishment the dress, the armour, the martial pride and discipline of the unknown strangers who had landed on their coast ; and the fair complexions of the blue-eyed warriors of Germany formed a very singular contrast with the swarthy or olive hue which is derived from the neighbourhood of the torrid zone.
Page 90 - Germany, formed a very singular contrast with the swarthy or olive hue, which is derived from the neighbourhood of the torrid zone. After the first difficulties had in some measure been removed, which arose from the mutual ignorance of their respective language, the Moors, regardless of any future consequence, embraced the alliance of the enemies of Rome; and a crowd of naked savages rushed from the woods and valleys of mount Atlas, to satiate their revenge on the polished tyrants, who had injuriously...
Page 271 - S' aggiunge al mal volere, ed alla possa, Nessun riparo vi può far la gente. La faccia sua mi parea lunga e grossa Come la pina di san Pietro a Roma : E a sua proporzione eran l' altr
Page 30 - Mceso-Gothic language was considered and prepared for the expression of Scripture, becomes manifest to the philological student, when he examines those precious relics of the fourth century which bear the name of Ulphilas. Here we often meet the very words with which we are so familiar in our English Bible, but linked together by a flexional structure that finds no parallel short of Sanskrit.
Page 89 - His body was solemnly exposed in the midst of the plain, under a silken pavilion, and the chosen squadrons of the Huns, wheeling round in measured evolutions, chanted a funeral song to the memory of a hero glorious in his life, invincible in his death, the father of his people, the scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world.