A Source Book of Mediæval History: Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the RenaissanceFrederic Austin Ogg American Book, 1907 - 504 pages |
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... given their lives to exploring , organizing , and sifting just such sources ? There can be no question that schools and colleges to - day have the use of better text - books in history than have ever before been available , and that ...
... given their lives to exploring , organizing , and sifting just such sources ? There can be no question that schools and colleges to - day have the use of better text - books in history than have ever before been available , and that ...
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... given Leaders and officers in war the power of life and death . In times of peace and peace there is no general magistrate , but the chiefs of the districts and cantons render justice among their own people and settle disputes.1 Robbery ...
... given Leaders and officers in war the power of life and death . In times of peace and peace there is no general magistrate , but the chiefs of the districts and cantons render justice among their own people and settle disputes.1 Robbery ...
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... given Rome a suggestion of the danger which threatened from the northern barbarians . Half a century later , the Gallic campaigns of Cæsar brought the two peoples into conflict for the first time in the region of the later Rhine ...
... given Rome a suggestion of the danger which threatened from the northern barbarians . Half a century later , the Gallic campaigns of Cæsar brought the two peoples into conflict for the first time in the region of the later Rhine ...
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... given below , was a native of Antioch , a soldier of Greek ancestry and apparently of noble birth , and a member of the Eastern emperor's bodyguard . Beyond these facts , gleaned from his Roman History , we have almost no knowledge of ...
... given below , was a native of Antioch , a soldier of Greek ancestry and apparently of noble birth , and a member of the Eastern emperor's bodyguard . Beyond these facts , gleaned from his Roman History , we have almost no knowledge of ...
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... given by Claudius Claudianus and Ammianus Marcellinus set forth their characteristics as understood by the Romans a half - century or more before the invasion of the Empire by Attila . There is no reason to suppose that either of these ...
... given by Claudius Claudianus and Ammianus Marcellinus set forth their characteristics as understood by the Romans a half - century or more before the invasion of the Empire by Attila . There is no reason to suppose that either of these ...
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