A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

History of the Christian Church • VOLUME 4

792 FOUETH PERIOD. A. D. 590-1049.

['Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893', 'Schaff, David S. (David Schley), 1852-1941'] • Public-domain historical edition in the United States (published 1884); OCR from Internet Archive scan

792 FOUETH PERIOD. A. D. 590-1049.

treat of church festivals, apostles, the Virgin Mary, martyrs, saints, relics, and enjoin a churchly and ascetic piety.

3. Lives of Saints, of the Benedictine order, namely, Odilo of Cluny, Komuald, Kodulphus, and Dominions Loricatus (the hero of self-flagellation), whose examples are held up for imi tation.1

4. Dogmatic Discussions, De Fide Catholica ; Contra Judceos; Dialogus inter Judceum et Christianum; De Divina Omnipotentia; De Processione Spiritus Sancti (against the Greeks), etc.2

5. Polemic and ascetic treatises. The most important is the Liber Gomorrhianus (W5~L), a fearless exposure of clerical immo rality which appeared to him as bad as the lewdness of Sodom and Gomorrah (hence the title).3 It is addressed to Pope Leo IX. and calls on him to exercise his authority in removing the scandals. The Liber Gratissimus, addressed to Henry, archbishop of Ravenna, is directed against simony.4 He wrote also tracts on the contempt of the world, on monastic perfec tion, on the life of hermits, on sacerdotal celibacy, against in temperance, against avarice, etc.5

6. On Miracles and Apparitions.6

7. On the Pictures of the chief Apostles, especially Peter and Paul.7

8. Exposition of the Canon of the Mass, and other liturgi cal topics.8

9. Exegetical Fragments on the Old and New Testaments.9

10. Poems, satires, epigrams and Prayers.10 His best hymn is on the glory of Paradise, based on poetic prose of St. Augustin : " Ad perennis vitcefontem mens sativit arida." n

i Migne, 925-1024. 2 II. 20 sqq. and 595 sqq. 3 II. 159-190.

* II. 99 sqq. 5 II. 191 sqq. • II. 571 sqq.

' II. 590 sqq. 8 II. 979 sqq. 9 II. 892 sqq. and 985 sqq.

i° II. 918 sqq. " II. 862. See above, p. 431 sq.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

ACTA SANCTORUM (Bolland.) often quoted in Lit.

Adam of Bremen, 110 ; life and writ ings, 785 sqq.

Adan or call to prayer, 193

Adelbert, 91

Adoptionisin and Adoptionist Contro versy, 511 sqq.

Aelfric, 567, 620

Agatho, Pope, 495.

Agobard of Lyons, against ordeals, 347 ; against image-worship, 471 sqq.

Aidan, 38

Alcuin, against Adoptionism, 512, 516 ; at the head of Charlemagne's palace school, 615 ; his life and writings, 684 sqq.

Alexandria, library of, 586

Alfonso the Wise, 350

Alfred, King of England, 394; 618 sqq.

Al-Kaaba, 157 sq.

All Saints, festival of, 445 sq.

All Souls, festival of, 446

Allegorical Interpretation, 614 sq.

Amalarius of Metz, life and writings, 701 sqq.

Anastasius, Bibliothecarius, life and writings, 774 sqq.

Anathema, 179

Andrew of Crete, 409

Anglo-Saxons, conversion of, 27 sqq.

Ansgar, 112 sqq.

Antichrist in Koine, 291

Areopagite, Dionysius the, 589 sqq.

Arianism, among the Goths and other German tribes, 77 sqq.

Armagh, Book of, 57

Arnulf of Orleans, 290, 779

Arnulf of Rheims, 290, 779, 782 Athingians, 579

Augustin of Canterbury, 31, 33, 37 Augustinianism and Semi-Augustinian-

ism, 523 sqq.

Avitus, against ordeals, 347 Aymardus, 368

BACH, 534

Bahr, 583 sq. and often in 'Lit. last ch.

Balmez, 327

Baronius, 292, 779, and passim

Bartseh, 417

Baur, 551, 565, and referred to in Lit. and notes

Beatus, 515.

Bede, 40 sqq. ; his hymns, 423 ; his schol arship, 610, 612 ; his life and writings, 669 sqq.

Bell (church), 440 sq.

Benedict VIII., 296 sq

Benedict IX., 297 sq.

Bertram, see Ratramnns

Berengar, 554 sqq. ; his theory on the Lord's Supper, 564 sqq.

Benedict of Aniane, 364

Biblical Studies, 613 sq.

Bickell, 402

Black Stone, 158.

Boethius, 605 sqq.

Bogomiles, 579 sq.

Boniface or Winfrid, 92 sqq., sermon of, 96 sq., pupils of, 100 sqq.

Boniface III., 230

Boniface IV., 230

Bonizo (Bonitho), 299

Brace,Ch. L., 326, 348 ; on torture, 354

Britons, conversion of, 22 sqq.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX.

Bruno, Count, first abbot of Cluny, 368 Bruno, Bishop of Toul,369, see Leo IX Bulgarians, conversion of, 134 sq.

, 41

Cserularius, 304, 318 sqq.

Canonical life, 332

Capitula Carisiacensia, 535

Capitularies of Charlemagne, 390 sqq.

Caroline Books, 465 sq.

Cassiodorus, 605, 612 ; life and writings, 653 sqq.

Catenae, 589

Celibacy, 332

Charity, Christian, 355 sqq. ; Gregory upon, 358 sqq. See Hospitals

Charlemagne, 103 sqq. ; character and aim of, 238 sq. ; his reign, 239 sq. ; appearance and habits, 240 sq. ; zeal for education, 241 sq. ; his vices, 242 sq. ; his death and burial, 243 sq. ; his personal character, 245 sq. ; canoni zation of, 249 ; monogram of, 249 ; as legislator, 390 sqq. ; on image wor ship, 467 sq. ; the Carolingian age of learning, 615 sqq.

Charles the Bald, promotes learning in France, 618

Childeric III., 233 sqq.

Christlieb, on Scotus Erigena, 761, 771, 773.

Church and State, 386 sqq.

Claudius of Turin, 472 sqq.

Clemens, 91

Clerical Morals, 330 sqq.

Clovis and the Franks, conversion of, 80 sqq.

Cluny, convent of, 367 sqq; 786, 789, 791.

Columba, 65 sqq.

Columbanus and the Irish missionaries, 84 sqq., 90

Concilium Quinisextum, 507 sqq.

Constans, 497

Constantine Pogonatus, 495

Constantine V., 457

Constantine-Sylvanus, 575

Constantinople, fall of, 324; literary centre of the Eastern Church, 586

Constantinople, oecumenical council of, 499. See Council.

Convents, 363 sqq.; of Cluny, 367 sqq.

Cosmas of Jerusalem, 406

Council, the sixth oecumenical, 499 sqq. ; Quinisextum, 507 sqq. ; seventh oecumenical, 459 sqq. National and Provincial Councils often referred to

Culdees, 72 sqq.

Cuthbert, 64

Cyrillus and Methodius, 128 sqq.

Cyxilla of Spain, hymn of, 432

DAMIANI, Life of Bomuald, 367 ; hymns of, 431 sq. ; life and writings, 787 sqq.

Daniel, 416

Dante, on Mohammed, 196; on Con stantine, and Church and State, 236 ; on Dionysius, 595 : on the Celestial Hierarchy, 598 ; on Boethius, 606

Denmark, Christianization of, 110 sqq.

Dervishes, 194

Dionysius the Areopagite, 589 sqq.

Dionysian Legends, 600 sqq.

Discipline, 371

Dollinger, on Johanna Papessa, 266 ;

on Honorius, 500, 503 ; on Sylvester

II., 780

Druthmar, life and writings, 739 sq. Diimmler, 288, and often referred to in

Lit. last ch.

Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, 370 Dyotheletism, 492 sq.

EASTERN and Western Churches and

their separation, 304 sqq. Ebert, 418, 584, 608, and passim in

last ch. Eginhard or Einhard, on Charlemagne,

237 ; 245 sqq. ; 326 ; life and writings,

704 sqq.

Eigil, life and writings, 699 sqq. Ekthesis, 496 Elias, Greek hymnist, 412 Elipandus, 514 Engelhardt, on the Pseudo-Dionysian

writings, 590

English legislation on religion, 392 sqq. English culture, 618 sqq.

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