The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 15
age of scholasticism and the Crusades. Under this Romanbanner of reform and Christian democracy, great ideas and 4 PROLOGUE impulses swept over Europe, altruism got the better of self-ishness, the great monastic orders redeemed the land and thepeople, and the arts of civilization took giant strides… … Ponte Nomentano, across Anio, near Rome.Ancient bridge, with mediaeval fortifications. tion ? What was their relation to the Papacy ? That is onefascination of the sphinx-like city. We think of mediaevalRome, if we do not really know it, as identical with the Pa-pacy, as saying its dutiful amen to…
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