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

The greatest of these was his so-called Library,^910 which is a unique work, being nothing less than notices, critiques and extr ...

The most important of the theological works of Photius is the Amphilochian Questions^913 — so called because these questions had ...

upon the new Manichaeans, in which biblical rather than philosophical arguments are relied upon, and mostly those which had alre ...

island of Pharos, an anchorite, who suggested to him the writing of the lives of the saints and martyrs. To this collection Sime ...

(1071–1078), Nicephorus III. Botoniates (1078–1081), Alexius I. Comnenus (1081–1118). The early part of his life he spent in Con ...

used is one of the things which this liberty allows. Upon both these points of fierce and long controversy he counseled continua ...

their species; and go anywhere at will under either a male or female form. From them come diseases and innumerable woes. The boo ...

§ 151. Eustathius of Thessalonica. I. Eustathius: Opera omnia in Migne, Patrol. Gr. Tom. CXXXV. col. 517; CXXXVI. col. 764 (repr ...

all who came over from Mohammedanism to Christianity had to repeat. Manuel argued that this formula was both blasphemous and pre ...

§ 152. Nicetas Acominatos. I. Nicetas Choniates: Opera, in Migne, Tom. CXXXIX., col. 287—CXL., col. 292. His History was edited ...

Ciampi: I. Cassiodori nel V. e nel VI. secolo. Imola, 1876. Cf. Du Pin, V. 43–44. Ceillier, XI. 207–254. Teuffel, 1098–1104. A. ...

officiorum, and in his own name while Pretorian prefect. He gives also in the sixth and seventh books a collection of formulas f ...

in manual labor of various kinds. In the second book he treats in an elementary way of the seven liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric ...

Francorum. He maintains that they are independent. Cf. W. Arndt’s preface (30pp.) to edition mentioned above. Georgius Florentiu ...

quiet. He enjoyed the favor of Guntram and Childebert, did much to beautify the city of Tours, built many churches, and particul ...

2, 102 sqq). J.C.E. Bourret: L’école chrétienne de Seville sous la monarchie des Visigoths. Paris, 1855. C. F. Montalembert: Les ...

Warned by disease of death’s approach, Isidore began the distribution of his property. For the last six months of his life he di ...

Jerome, Augustin, Fulgentius, Cassianus and Gregory the Great. A summary of each chapter of the books mentioned is given. The ex ...

duties, meals, festivals, fasts, dress, punishment, sickness and death. It recalls the somewhat similar Institutes of Cassiodoru ...

VI. Miscellaneous. Under this head come thirteen brief Letters^1037 and minor works of doubtful genuineness. There are also nume ...