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 499
in the dogmatic disputes ofthe Christians, and the notoriety acquired by the rhetoricians who attacked ordefended the truth, had made a number of vain nonentities rival each otherin extravagance and recklessness in their endeavours to become celebrated:they tried to attract public notice by an… … Fig. 308.—Dream of St. Basilius the Great.—The Martyr of Cesarca, St. Mercurius, sent fromheaven by Christ, is in the act of stabbing the Emperor Julian the Apostate, whom he hasthrown to the ground (see the text, p. 399).—After a Greek Painting of the SixteenthCentury, though the style is that of…
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