Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 495
his crime was called simony, and that the epithet of simoniat wasapplied to all who purchased ecclesiastical cures. The repentance of Simon the heretic did not last long, for an author ofthe third century, whose account is confirmed by a passage in Suetonius,tells us that this neophyte having… … Fig. 306.—Babylon the Great {mulierr super bestiam), represented as a woman holding a cup, andriding the beast spoken of in the Apocalypse.—Miniature from a Commentaire sur quelquesLivres de lEcriture, a Manuscript of the Eleventh Century, in the National Library, Paris.From Count Bastards great…
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