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The history of civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution / By G. Guizot. Translated by William Hazlitt.

  • François Guizot
Date:
1846
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Credit: The history of civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution / By G. Guizot. Translated by William Hazlitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. ELEVENTH LECTURE. Perpetuity of the Roman law after the full of the Empire—Of the History of the Homan Law in the Middle Ayes, by M. de Savigny—Merits and defi- ciencies of this work—1. Roman law among the Visigoths—Breviarium Aniani, collected by command of Marie—History and contents of this collection—Roman law among the Burgundians—Papiani Htspon- sorum—History and contents of this law—3. Roman law among the Franks—No new coUeetion—The perpetuity of Roman law proved by various facts—Recapitulation p. 1 TWELFTH LECTURE. Objeot of the lecture—State of the church in Gaul, from the sixth to the middle of the eighth century—Analogy between the primitive state of the religious society and the civil society—The unity of the chnrch or the spiritual society—Two elements or conditions of spiritual society; 1st. Unity of truth, that is to say, of absolute reason; ’dud. Liberty of minds, or individual reason—State of these two ideas in the Christian church from the sixth to the eighth century—She adopts one and rejects the other—Unity of the church in legislation—General councils—Dif- ference between the eastern and the western church as regards the perse- cution of heretics—Relations of the church with the state, from the sixth to the eighth century: 1st, in the eastern empire; 2nd, in the west, especially in Frankish Gaul—Interference of the temporal power in the affairs of the church—Of the spiritual power in the affairs of the state— Recapitulation p. IT THIRTEENTH LECTURE. Of the internal organization and state of the Gnllo-Frnnkish church, from the sixth to the eighth century—Characteristic facts of the Gaulish church at the fifth century—What became of them after the invasion—The ex ■ elusive domination of the clergy in the religious society continues— Facts which modify it: l. Separation of ordination and tenure; priests not ecclesiastics—2. Patronage by laymen of the churches which thev founded —3. Oratories, or particular chapels — 4. Advocates of the
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