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OF

ECCLESIASTICAL

HISTORY,

ANCIENT AND MODERN,

BY

JOHN LAURENCE VON MOSHEIM, D.D.

CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN.

A NEW AND LITERAL TRANSLATION

FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN, WITH COPIOUS ADDITIONAL NOTES,
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED,

BY JAMES MURDOCK, D.D.

EDITED WITH ADDITIONS, BY

HENRY SOAMES, M.A.

RECTOR OF STAPLEFORD TAWNEY, WITH THOYDON MOUNT, ESSEX.

SECOND REVISED EDITION.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.-MEDIEVAL PERIOD.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS; HATCHARD AND SON; F. AND J.
RIVINGTON; HAMILTON AND CO.; SIMPKIN AND CO.; WHITTAKER AND CO.; COWIE
AND CO.; T. BUMPUS ; BAGSTER AND SONS; J. BAIN; T. AND W. BOONE; J. BIGG
AND SON; E. HODGSON; H. G. BOHN; HOULSTON AND CO.; H. WASHBOURNE; SMITH,
ELDER, AND CO.; J. NISBET AND CO.: STEVENS AND CO.; W. J. CLEAVER; J. GREEN;
W. WHITE; G. WILLIS; J. CORNISH; J. SNOW; G. ROUTLEDGE; BICKERS AND CO.;
AND J. H. PARKER, OXFORD.

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THE Medieval Period, in ecclesiastical history, draws its interest exclusively from the Roman church. The Greek church is, indeed, never out of sight, and other Oriental churches appear at intervals; but the popes are constantly found upon the alert to acquire power over them all. Thus the present volume of Mosheim's learned work is essentially a papal history. The facts, however, detailed in it are worthy of attentive consideration by studious minds of every class. The theologian, especially, should form a deliberate opinion upon them. One section of the learned world maintains, that nothing happened in the middle ages which did not naturally flow from the gradual development of a system ascending uninterruptedly to Jesus Christ and his apostles. Another section traces through these very ages the stealthy growth of religious usages and principles, which the holy founders of Christianity never sanctioned. Nay, more: it sees much in medieval religion that cannot be reconciled with apostolic teaching. It is idle, or insidious, to treat such questions as mere vents for the illhumours, and a relief to the monotonous pursuits of recluse theologians. They are questions which bear most importantly upon the interests of mankind, both temporal and eternal.

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