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

liberality which rendered it possible that Bede’s natural taste for learning should receive such careful culture. So amid the we ...

satisfaction to me to sit facing my holy place, where I was wont to pray, that I may also sitting call upon my Father." And thus ...

II. Expository works. These are compilations from the Fathers, which originally were carefully assigned by marginal notes to the ...

and it was even submitted for criticism, prior to publication, to the monks of Lindisfarne. (c) The life of Felix of Nola, Confe ...

Lombard family and was born in Forum Julii (Friuli, Northern Italy), probably between 720 and His education was completed at th ...

Romanae);^1073 Jerome, Orosius (Historia adversus Paganos),^1074 Aurelius Victor (De Caesaribus historia), Jordanis (De breviati ...

Paulinus, patriarch of Aquileia, was born about 726^1082 in Forum Julii, now Friuli, near Venice. He entered the priesthood, was ...

to Henry, count or duke of Friuli. It was written about 795, and consists of sixty-six chapters upon the virtues to be practiced ...

E. Dümmler in Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, I. 1. 169–351, and some additional poetry is given in Addenda, Tom. II. 692. II. Vita ...

On his return he met Charlemagne at Parma (Easter, 781), and was invited by him to become master of the School of the Palace. Th ...

died upon the anniversary on which he had desired to die, the Festival of Pentecost, May 19, 804. He was buried in the church of ...

II. Exegetical Miscellany.^1126 (a) Questions and answers respecting the interpretation of Genesis. (b) Edifying and brief expos ...

hundred and seventh line to the close upon original information. It seems to have been written by Alcuin in his youth at York. I ...

showed a pious and studious disposition (c. 7). He entered the cloister school of Utrecht, taught by the abbot Gregory, whose bi ...

by him as a simple presbyter, and in that capacity he carried out one of his darling purposes and built the famous monastery of ...

the patristic quotations in defence of the Filioque clause. In 811 he was witness to the emperor’s will. Louis the Pious, Charle ...

36–43). All should come to church to celebrate mass and hear the preaching, and no one should eat before communicating (c. 46). ...

abbot, its founder Sturm (Sturmi, Sturmin), was his relative. There Eigil lived for many years as a simple monk, beloved and res ...

representative of Agobard, he held a council at Lyons and discoursed to the members for three days upon the ecclesiastical offic ...

Old Testament sacrifices, the figure of the true blood, which was in the second cup. The fifth letter is to Hetto, a monk, who h ...