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CONTENTS

OF THE FIFTH VOLUME.

CHAPTER XLIX.

INTRODUCTION, WORSHIP, AND PERSECUTION OF IMAGES.

REVOLT OF

ITALY AND ROME. TEMPORAL DOMINION OF THE POPES. -- CONQUEST

OF ITALY BY THE FRANKS. -ESTABLISHMENT OF IMAGES. CHARAC-

TER AND CORONATION OF CHARLEMAGNE. -RESTORATION AND DECAY

THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST.-INDEPENDENCE OF ITALY. —

CONSTITUTION OF THE GERMANIC BODY.

Introduction of Images into the Christian Church,.

Their Worship,..........

The Image of Edessa,

Its Copies,.

Opposition to Image-Worship,......

726-840. Leo the Iconoclast, and his Successors,

754. Their Synod of Constantinople,

Their Creed,

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730-752. Rome attacked by the Lombards,

754. Her Deliverance by Pepin,

774. Conquest of Lombardy by Charlemagne,

751, 753, 768. Pepin and Charlemagne, Kings of France,.

Patricians of Rome,

Donations of Pepin and Charlemagne to the Popes,..

Forgery of the Donation of Constantine,....

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780. Restoration of Images in the East oy the Empress Irene,.

787. VIIth General Council, IId of Nice,......

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842. Final Establishment of Images by the Empress Theodora,...

794. Reluctance of the Franks and of Charlemagne,

774-800. Final Separation of the Popes from the Eastern Empire,.... 40

800 Coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor of Rome and of the West, 42

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888. Division of the Empire,......

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962. Otho, King of Germany, restores and appropriates the Western

Empire,

Transactions of the Western and Eastern Empires,......

800-1060. Authority of the Emperors in the Elections of the Popes,. 58

1347-1378. Weakness and Poverty of the German Emperor Charles

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1356. His Ostentation,....

Contrast of the Power and Modesty of Augustus,

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DESCRIPTION OF ARABIA AND ITS INHABITANTS.- BIRTH, CRARACTER,

AND DOCTRINE OF MAHOMET. HE PREACHES AT MECCA. - FLIES TO

MEDINA. - PROPAGATES HIS RELIGION BY THE SWORD. — VOLUNTARY

OR RELUCTANT SUBMISSION OF THE ARABS. H.S DEATH AND SUC

CESSORS. THE CLAIMS AND FORTUNES OF ALI AND HIS DESCENDANTS

Description of Arabia,

The Soil and Climate,..

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Division of the Sandy, the Stony, and the Happy Arabia,

Manners of the Bedoweens, or Pastura, Arabs,

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Mahomet the Apostle of God, and the last of the Prophets, 106

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629, 630. First War of the Mahometans against the Roman Empire,. 140

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THE CONQUEST OF PERSIA, SYRIA, EGYPT, AFRICA, AND SPAIN. BY TLB

ARABS OR SARACENS. EMPIRE OF THE CALIPHS OR SUCCESSORS OF

MAHOMET. STATE OF THE CHRISTIANS, ETC., UNDER THEIR GOVERN-

MENT.

€34. The City is taken by Storm and Capitulation,..

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