The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Band 3Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1994 - 1352 Seiten A history of the Roman and Byzantine Empires, covering a period of thirteen centuries from the age of the Antonines to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks. -- Dust jacket. |
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... Christian princes , who viewed with a smile of contempt the last struggles of superstition and despair . " But the imperial laws which prohibited the sacrifices and ceremonies of pagan- ism were rigidly executed ; and every hour ...
... Christian princes , who viewed with a smile of contempt the last struggles of superstition and despair . " But the imperial laws which prohibited the sacrifices and ceremonies of pagan- ism were rigidly executed ; and every hour ...
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... Christian copy . But there was always this important difference between Christian and heathen polytheism in paganism this was the whole religion ; in the darkest ages of Christianity , some , however obscure and vague , Christian ...
... Christian copy . But there was always this important difference between Christian and heathen polytheism in paganism this was the whole religion ; in the darkest ages of Christianity , some , however obscure and vague , Christian ...
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... Christian , and interpo- lated among his poems , there is no allusion whatever to the great religious strife . No one would know the existence of Christianity at that period of the world by reading the works of Claudian . His panegyric ...
... Christian , and interpo- lated among his poems , there is no allusion whatever to the great religious strife . No one would know the existence of Christianity at that period of the world by reading the works of Claudian . His panegyric ...
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