Early-middle-ages Sentence Examples

Isolated examples in the early middle ages of metropolitans dealing with their suffragan bishops by imprisonment in chains were extra-canonical abuses, connected with the perversion of Church law which treated the metropolitan (who originally was merely convener of the provincial synod and its representative during the intervals of sessions) as the feudal " lord " of his comprovincials.

In the early middle ages the title prelate was applied to secular persons in high positions and thence it passed to persons having ecclesiastical authority.

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Again, the Scythic style is interesting as being one element in the art of the barbarians who conquered the Roman Empire and the zoomorphic decoration of the early middle ages.

During the early middle ages the bank of the Rhine formed the most cultured part of Germany, basing its civilization on its Roman past.

Of his separate publications, the most important are his lives of Cromwell (1888), William the Silent, (1897), Ruskin (1902), and Chatham (1905); his Meaning of History (1862; enlarged 1894) and Byzantine History in the Early Middle Ages (1900); and his essays on Early Victorian Literature (1896) and The Choice of Books (1886) are remarkable alike for generous admiration and good sense.

In appearance the town is quaint and romantic, presenting almost as faithful a picture of a town of the early middle ages as Nuremberg does of the later.

The chief external works achieved for western Europe by the Benedictines during the early middle ages may be summed up under the following heads.

This side of Benedictine life is most typically represented by the Venerable Bede, the gentle and learned scholar of the early middle ages.

The original name was Buonaparte, which was borne in the early middle ages by several distinct families in Italy.

In the early middle ages it was commonly applied to secular officials and magistrates, and it remained all though the middle ages as the title of certain officials in the Italian city states.

During the early middle ages this region was also known as Ma wara '1 Nahr or Ma-vera-un-nahr, the meaning of which is given in the alternative classical title of Transoxiana.

In fact the central portion of the Alps was by far the least Romanised and least known till the early middle ages.

In spite of the frequent pillage and destruction of monasteries by Northmen, Saracens, Arabs and other invaders; in spite of the existence of even widespread local abuses, St Benedict's institute went on progressing and consolidating; and on the whole it may be said that throughout the early middle ages the general run of Benedictine houses continued to perform with substantial fidelity the religious and social functions for which they were created.

The chief ceremony, as kept from the early middle ages onwards - the washing of the feet of twelve or more poor men or beggars - was in the early Church almost unknown.

In the early middle ages the term was applied to representatives of a count administering justice for him in the country or small towns and dealing with unimportant cases, levying taxes, &c. Monasteries and religious houses often employed a vicar to answer to their feudal lords for those of their lands which did not pass into mortmain.

Fulda was specially famous for its school, which was the centre of the theological learning of the early middle ages.

In the early middle ages Assisi was subject to the dukes of Spoleto; but in the nth century it seems to have been independent.

This remark, though suggested by the state of society in ancient Greece, is largely applicable throughout the world until the close of the early middle ages.

The use of engraved gems in the early middle ages has already been noticed; but the taste for antique intaglios was not confined to any one period.

In the early middle ages the emperor had already his consiliarii; but his council was a fluctuating body of personal advisers.

In Mabillon's Prefaces (reprinted separately) these lives were for the first time made to illustrate the ecclesiastical and civil history of the early middle ages.

Not since the early Middle Ages has the Catholic Church seemed so amorphous, formless and anomic.

The saint 's cult came to Britain during the early Middle Ages and was strengthened by the Norman Conquest.