History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073.

570), both statesmen under Theodoric, the Ostrogothic king of Italy, form the connecting links between ancient and mediaeval lea ...

and philosophy in the garb of a dignified woman (who sets as his celestial guide, like Dante’s Beatrice). The work enjoyed an ex ...

As to Italy, the Greek continued to be spoken in the Greek colonies in Calabria and Sicily down to the eleventh century. Boëthiu ...

but his references may all have been derived from Jerome and Cassiodorus.^820 Paulus Diaconus frequently uses Greek words. Charl ...

divine of the Carolingian age. From his school proceeded RABANUS MAURUS, the founder of learning and higher education in Germany ...

well as the moral and mystical. He identifies the Finger of God (Digitus Dei) with the Spirit of God (cap. 2; comp. Luke 11:20 w ...

He invited the best scholars from Italy and England to his court,—Peter of Pisa, Paul Warnefrid, Paulinus of Aquileia, Theodulph ...

Troyes, Old Corbey and New Corbey, Metz, St. Gall, Utrecht, Lüttich.^835 The rich literature of the Carolingian age shows the fr ...

Charlemagne was for Germany and France, Alfred was for England. He conquered the forces of the Danes by land and by sea, deliver ...

c. 580–662^839 St. John of Damascus c. 676–754^840 Photius c. 805–891^841 Simeon Metaphrastes 10th century. Oecumenius 10th cent ...

c. 744–809 Theodulph of Orleans -821 Eigil -822 Amalarius -837 Claudius of Turin -839^845 Agobard of Lyons 779–840^846 Einhard ( ...

c. 815–877^851 Anastasius -886 Ratherius of Verona c. 890–974 Pope Sylvester II. (Gerbert) -1003^852 Fulbert of Chartres c. 950– ...

a friend who had originally asked him the questions. The answers are sometimes very short, sometimes rich speculative essays. Th ...

moral matters; several are on the Severian heresy, others supply biographical details. Many of his letters exist in MS. only. (4 ...

I. Life. John of Damascus, Saint and Doctor of the Eastern Church, last of the Greek Fathers,^872 was born in the city of Damasc ...

The letter was of course a forgery, but so clever that when the caliph showed John the letter he acknowledged the similarity of ...

is to the learned. In the Old Testament there are signs to quicken the memory and promote devotion (the ark, the rod of Aaron, t ...

three heresies, compiled mostly from Epiphanius, but with two sections, on the Mohammedans and Iconoclasts, which are probably o ...

dependent upon food. Otherwise it is the same as the former. The fire of hell is not material, but in what it consists God alone ...

Greek authors besides would provide a field of Hellenic literature sufficient for the wants of that generation. In having so pro ...