The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 17
4 PROLOGUE impulses swept over Europe, altruism got the better of self- ishness, the great monastic orders redeemed the land and the people, and the arts of civilization took giant strides along national lines during this golden age of the twelfth and thir- teenth centuries. Roman People. — What,… … Ponte Nomentano, across Anio, near Rome. Ancient bridge, with mediaeval fortifications. tion ? What was their relation to the Papacy ? That is one fascination of the sphinx-like city. We think of mediaeval Eome, if we do not really know it, as identical with the Pa- pacy, as saying its dutiful amen…
Art · Christian art and symbolism
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