 | Jules Michelet - 1844 - 654 pages
...civilisation, attached those wandering tribes to the soil, and prepared, unknown to himself, the route for the armies of Charlemagne, as the missionaries of the sixteenth century opened America to those of Charles V. He erected on the Rhine that metropolis of German Christianity, the church of Mayence,... | |
 | Jules Michelet - France - 1847 - 832 pages
...religion and civilization attached these roving tribes to the soil, and unconsciously prepared the road for the armies of Charlemagne, as the missionaries of the sixteenth century opened America to those of Charles the Fifth. He reared on the Rhine the metropolis of German Christianity — the church... | |
 | Paul Lacroix - Art, Medieval - 1878 - 660 pages
...tribes to the soil by means of religion and civilisation, and unwittingly prepared tlie way for 5*9 the armies of Charlemagne, as the missionaries of...Missionary Apostles.— After a Tapestry in Tournay Cathedial, made at Arras in 1402. civil order, the wisest of their laws — these Councils, which have... | |
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... for the armies of Charlemagne, as the missionaries of the sixteenth century opened America to the armies of Spain." Preaching was not the sole arena in which religious oratory had to do battle. The Councils, which were, so to speak, the guardians... 