Identifier: historyofallnati08wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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price. In connection with this reform the jurisprudence of Justin-ian was revised, in order that its ordinances, which in many caseshad become obsolete, might be brought into harmony with the needsof the times, and thus restored to usefulness. The work which re-sulted, containing six parts and sixty books, was not finished byBasil, but was completed under the two following reigns. After themisfortunes and commotions of the last decade, such an administra-tion created a deep impression. Thus the new dynasty, which more-over intelligently fostered art (Plate X.) and science, won the loveof the common people. But even this pacific reign was not free from the religious strifewhich had now become an essential element in the national life ofthe Byzantines. This contest exerted a decisive influence uponthe whole subsequent development of the church; for it brought toa speedy and logical consummation the separation between theRomish and Greek churches, which had begun during the image PLATE X
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Allegorical Representation of the Festival of Easter. Miniature iu a manuscript of the Sermons of St. Gregory Nazianzen (Father of theGreek Church, A. D. 32S-390), prepared for Emperor Basil the Maccdouiau. Paris,National Library. (From Bastard.) History of All yations, Vol. VIII., page 1S6. THE PATiUARcn p II on us. 187 controversy, and inwardly was already complete. By this separationthe point about which the development of Christianity centred waspermanently transferred to the West, whereas l)efore it had been atone time Rome, at another Constantinople. .lust as the political lead-ership of western Christendom had been taken away from the Byzan-tines when Charlemagne was crowned emperor, so in like manner theywere now deprived of their religious supremacy. The Holy See,which in fact had long since thrown off the authority of the Byzan-tine emperors, now became the head of the western church. Thecause of this quarrel Basil bad received as a hateful legacy fromhis predecessors. Ignat

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