 | Giovanni Battista de Rossi - 1879 - 608 sivua
...of the age immediately after Constantine are less abundant, more particularly those which belong to the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth ; lastly, the indications and material proofs of the tombs and relics of the martyrs are by no means... | |
 | Gottlieb Lünemann - 1882 - 544 sivua
...(t 430), and others. That change of views comes out with special distinctness in the African synods at the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth. In the thirty-sixth canon of the synod at Hippo (393), as in the forty-seventh canon of the third synod... | |
 | François Guizot - 1885 - 284 sivua
...I say the Christian Church, and not Christianity, between which a broad distinction is to be made. At the end of the fourth century, and the beginning...Christianity was no longer a simple belief, it was an institution—it had formed itself into a corporate body. It had its government, a body of priests;... | |
 | John Williams Mason - 1885 - 76 sivua
...put on sacred vestments, the same in shape, but different in colour from the ordinary ones. Towards the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth, the Clergy also began by degrees to dress in more costly fashion as to the material or texture of their... | |
 | Ernst von Meyer - 1898 - 664 sivua
...works of the later Alexandrians, and also, subsequently, upon those of the alchemists of the Middle The end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth constitute, without doubt, the period in which the study of alchemy reached its zenith among the Alexandrians... | |
 | Samuel Dill - 1898 - 416 sivua
...make good the deficit to the treasury. Now there is ample evidence that the tax-bearing acreage in the end of the fourth century and the •beginning of the fifth was rapidly contracting. In Campania alone, once the garden of Italy, more than 500,000 jugera ' had... | |
 | 1902 - 850 sivua
...quiet. XXIV. THE HOUSE OF ST. MELANIA THE YOUNGER. In a rich mansion near S. Stefano Rotondo there lived at the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth, St. Melania the younger, with her husband Pinian, son of Severus, the prefect or governor of Rome.... | |
 | Louis Duchesne - 1907 - 248 sivua
...example of a very marked attachment to autonomy. It is not, therefore, from literature that the Romans, at the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the next, sought to prove the authority of their Church. Damasus (366) and his successors Zosimus, Boniface,... | |
 | James Smith Reid - 1913 - 598 sivua
...brilliant city declined into insignificance, with the cities near it. Synesius, the great bishop of Cyrene at the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth, writes of its miserable state. Crete also, the island of ninety cities, as Homer has it in the Odyssey,... | |
 | 1915 - 486 sivua
...accuracy. 4. THE DEPARTURE OF THE ROMAN FORCES FROM BRITAIN. The withdrawal of troops from Britain at the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth was due to the operation of two distinct causes. (1) The continual personal conflicts for the imperial... | |
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At the end of the fourth century, and the beginning of the fifth, Christianity was no longer a simple belief, it was an institution — it had formed itself into a corporate body. 
