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Identifier: nineteenchristia00thom (find matches)
Title: Nineteen Christian centuries in outline. A guide to historical study for home reading and literary clubs
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Thompson, Lewis O., 1839-1887. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, A. Craig & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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pletes his wall in 210; but dies at Yorkin 211. 128 NINETEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIES IN OUTLINE. 214. First contact of the Romans with the Ale-manni on the Upper Rhine. 218. Silk was first worn by Heliogabalus, the mostdebauched of the Emperors. 222. The Romans promise an annual tax to theGoths. 242. The Roman temple of Janus closed for thelast time. 247. Secular games re-established at Rome tohonor the i,000th year from the building of the city,753 B. C. 249. The Goths for the first time invade theRoman Empire. 251. The spirit of asceticism inaugurates monasticlife. 253. The Franks make their first appearance inGaul; the Goths and Burgundians enter Moesia andPannonia. 257. The title Papa (Pope, Father^ is given todistinguished bishops. 259. The Persians defeat the Romans and flayValerian alive. 261. Christian emblems like the cross, ship,dove, fish, lyre, etc., begin to supplant the heathen,and are used in private houses, churches, and in cata-combs. 263. The Franks invade Gaul (France).
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NINETEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIES IN OUTLINE. I29 269. The Goths are conquered by Claudius with asupposed loss of 300,000. Zenobia takes Egypt, Asia Minor and a part ofArmenia. 273. Aurelian captures Palmyra and takes QueenZenobia captive. 276. Probus permits the Franks to settle in Italy. 283. Paul, the Theban, the first hermit. 2S4. Diocletian sends embassadors to China. Thebaths of Diocletian, most sun)pluous, contained about3,000 benches of marble slabs, water issued frommouths of silver, and the walls were adorned withmosaic paintings. He had a chateau and villa atSpalatro in Dalmatia. The Roman government wasfashioned by him after the oriental style, so that thefirst court ceremonial and first groom of the bed-chamber in Europe have their date from him. 290. The Gregorian and Hermoginian Code waspublished. 291. The Franks make themselves masters ofBatavia and Flanders. 99. Notwithstanding the numerous attempts ofthe Roman power to destroy the Church, yet Chris-tianity spreads as neve
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