Identifier: sciliteratur00jaco (find matches)
Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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lesiastical History, in five books, of the same period. Itwould appear as if the genius of history was concentrated upon the annals ofthe Church, when arose quarrels and disputes as keen as those which wereformerly provoked by politics alone. This new kind of history seems betteradapted to Greek literature, though three or four of the Latin writers appearto have preserved the best traditions of their language. The priest Rufinus,who had been intimate with St. Jerome, and who had lived in retirement inSicily, where he died (410), translated the History of Eusebius into passableLatin; Sulpicivis Severus, his contemporarj, a more elegant and correctwriter, although born in Aquitaine, and who never left Gaul, where he hadfollowed the apostleship of St. Martin, composed an Abridgment of SacredHistory from the creation of the world to the year 410 a.d., and this excellentbook earned the surname of the Christian Sallust. The Greek language, the existence of which was henceforward inseparable
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BATTLE OF JONATHAN AGAINST BACCIDE. Embattled castle and military uniforms of the xv century. Miniature ol J. Fouquet, taken from theHistory of the Jews. By Josephus, translated from the Greek into French. M. S. of the xv century. CHRONICLES, HISTORIES, MEMOIRS. 457 from the empire of the East, was perjjetuated, with most of its essentialqualities, in a mass of historical works written in Greek, down to the captureof Constantinople by Mahomet II.; but the Latin language, on the contrary,had been subjected to the inevitable mixture of the national idioms of all thebarbaric peoples which had collected in different parts of the Roman empire.The Latin language, though more and more corrupted and changed, continuednone the less to be the official language of the clergy and of the higher civiladministration. Nothing but Latin was spoken at the court of Odoacer, Kingof the Heruli, and at the court of Theodoric, King of the Goths. Thus booksof political rather than of religious history contin

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