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Byzantine and Romanesque architecture (1920)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge : University Press · leaf 270

An illustration from Byzantine and Romanesque architecture, 1920, leaf 270
an cathedral, it issurprising to read that the notitia Urbis, more recentthan Constantine, does not find one Christian churchworthy to be named among the edifices of the city,though in the time of Gratian it still contained 424temples and chapels of the heathen deities\ It is possiblethat except S.… … ..^ ,^-^ i;^^A-- ^^iSK:--^^! )~i CH. xiii] ROME 187 The Church under the era of toleration rapidly grew Wealth ofrich, and the clergy became idle and luxurious. Their cie^ycorruption is chastised by S. Jerome, and their avaricehad to be restrained by an edict of Valentinian. Thebishopric of Rome…

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