CONTENTS

OF THE FIFTH VOLUME.

CHAPTER XLIX.

TRODUCTION, WORSHIP, AND PERSECUTION OF IMAGES.— REVOLT OF

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

OF ITALY BY THE FRANKS. ESTABLISHMENT OF IMAGES. — CHARAO-

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,

Opposition to Image-Worship,...

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

754. Their Synod of Constantinople,

Their Creed,

726-775 Their Persecution of the Images and Monks,

State of Italy,.................

727. Epistles of Gregory II. to the Emperor,

728. Revolt of Italy,

Republic of Rome,.

780-752. Rome attacked by the Lombards,'

754. Her Deliverance by Pepin, ...

774. Conquest of Lombardy by Charlemagne,

761, 753, 768. Pepin and Charlemagne, Kings of France,.

Patricians of Rome,

Donations of Pepin and Charlemagne to the Popes,.................... 31

Forgery of the Donation of Constantine,.

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83

780 Restoration of Images in the East oy the Empress Irene,....... 38

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

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842. Final Establishment of Images by the Empress Theodora,...... 33

794. Reluctance of the Franks and of Charlemagne,

89

774-800. Final Separation of the Popes from the Eastern Empire,.... 40
800 Coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor of Rome and of the West, 43

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768 814. Reign and Character of Charlemagne,.
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Extent of his Empire,

In France,...

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

Empire,

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

Transactions of the Western and Eastern Empires,.

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

814-1250. Independence of the Princes of Germany,.

1250. The Germanic Constitution,..

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

1856. His Ostentation,

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Contrast of the Power and Modesty of Augustus,

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CHAPTER L.

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DESCRIPTION OF ARABIA AND TTS INHABITANTS. · BIRTH, CHARACTER,
AND DOCTRINE OF MAHOMET. HE PREACHES AT MECCA.FLIES TO
MEDINA. PROPAGATES HIS RELIGION BY THE SWORD. VOLUNTARY
OR RELUCTANT SUBMISSION OF THE ARABS. - HIS DEATH AND SUO
CESSORS, -THE CLAIMS AND FORTUNES OF ALI AND HIS DESCENDANTS

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

Manners of the Bedoweens, or Pastora. Arabs,

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

622-632. His regal Dignity,

He declares War against the Infidels,...

His defensive Wars against the Koreish of Mecca,

23 Battle of Beder,.

Of Ohud,.......

20 First War of the Mahometans against the Roman Empire.. 140

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

ARABS OR SARACENS. EMPIRE OF THE CALIPHS OR SUCCESSORS OF

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

834. The City is taken by Storm and Capitulation, .

Pursuit of the Damascenes,...

Fair of Abyla,