History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073.
"Hardened sinners" (says Lea) "might despise such imprecations, but their effect on believers was necessarily unutterable, when, ...
to this extreme remedy of enforcing obedience. They had some basis for it in the custom of the barbarians to hold the family or ...
the fifth century downward to its present state. London 1714. A new ed. in the "Lib. of Anglo-Cath. Theol." Oxford 1844. Eus. Am ...
frees from eternal damnation, but not from temporal punishment, which culminates in death or in purgatory. Penance is described ...
Indulgences may be granted by bishops and archbishops in their dioceses, and by the pope to all Catholics. The former dealt with ...
The civil and ecclesiastical relations of the middle ages are so closely intertwined that it is impossible to study or understan ...
The Justinian code (527–534) transmitted to the middle ages the legislative wisdom and experience of republican and imperial Rom ...
parent could not disinherit, to the females he was bound to give an adequate dowry. The testimony of Manicheans, of Samaritans, ...
the secular affairs, by the Comes palatii;^415 both were aided in each province by a delegated bishop and count who were to work ...
They are related to each other as oral tradition and the Bible are in theology. The Common Law embodies the ancient general and ...
offences; it enjoins the golden rule (in the negative form), not to do to any man what we would not have done to us.^419 "In all ...
The public worship centered in the celebration of the mass as an actual, though unbloody, repetition of the sacrifice of Christ ...
The mysterious character of the eucharist was changed into the miraculous and even the magical with the spread of the belief in ...
the formula of exorcism, the commendatio animae, the Penitential, the Calendar and the Roman cantus; they should learn to unders ...
Cardinal Pitra: Hymnographie de l’église grecque. Rome 1867. By the same: Analecta Sacra Spicilegio Solesmensi parata, T. I. Par ...
The Greek church poetry is not metrical and rhymed, but written in rhythmical prose for chanting, like the Psalms, the hymns of ...
We now proceed to the classical period of Greek church poetry. In the front rank of Greek hymnists stands St. John Of Damascus, ...
The third rank is occupied by St. Theophanes, surnamed the Branded,^452 one of the most fruitful poets. He attended the second C ...
Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem (629), celebrated in Anacreontic metres the praises of Christ, the apostles, and martyrs, and ...
inspirer rather than the author of that hymn, which is worthy of a place in every book of devotional poetry.^460 Romanus, deacon ...
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