Mohammed and Charlemagne
Henry Pirenne
Number of quotes: 12
Book ID: 373 Page: 19/20
Section: 3D2
The Barbarians we needed, as soldiers, and as agricultural labourers. They asked nothing better than to enter the service of Rome. Thus the Empire, on its frontiers, became Germanized in respect of blood; but not otherwise, for all who entered the Empire became Romanized.{1}….
Before long almost the entire army was composed of Barbarians;…
Quote ID: 8214
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 373 Page: 28
Section: 1A,4B
In 417 Rutilius Namatianus was still boasting of the eternal nature of Rome.{1}
Quote ID: 8215
Time Periods: 15
Book ID: 373 Page: 32/33
Section: 3D2
Thus, at the beginning of the 6th century there was not an inch of soil in the West still subject to the Emperor. At first sight the catastrophe seems enormous; so enormous that the fall of Romulus has been regarded as beginning a second act of the world-drama. But if we examine it more closely it seems less important.For the Emperor still had a legal existence.
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Theodoric governed in his name…Clovis prided himself upon receiving the title of consul.{2}
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The Empire subsisted, in law, as a sort of mystical presence; in fact—and this is much more important—it was “Romania” that survived.
Quote ID: 8216
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 373 Page: 37/38
Section: 3D2
But the Germans wished neither to destroy nor exploit the Empire. Far from despising it, they admired it. They did not confront it with any superior moral strength.….
The truth is that in every respect they had much to learn from the Empire. How could they resist its influence?
Quote ID: 8217
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 373 Page: 39
Section: 3D1
However, there was still Arians in 524. And then came the Frankish conquest, which was accompanied by the triumph of orthodox Catholicism.
Quote ID: 8218
Time Periods: 6
Book ID: 373 Page: 44
Section: 3D1
Among the Visigoths, Romanization made constant progress. By the end of the 6th century, Arianism had everywhere disappeared.
Quote ID: 8219
Time Periods: 56
Book ID: 373 Page: 45
Section: 4B
In short, “Romania,” though somewhat diminished in the North, still survived as a whole.{1} It had, of course, altered greatly for the worse. In every domain of life, in the arts, literature and science, the regression is manifest.….
There was nothing to take its place, and no one protested against it. Neither the Church nor the laity conceived that there could be any other form of civilization. In the midst of the prevailing decadence only one moral force held its own: the Church, and for the Church the Empire still existed.
Quote ID: 8220
Time Periods: 56
Book ID: 373 Page: 46
Section: 3D2
No doubt the Germanic kings installed in the Empire were national kings to their peoples—reges gentium,in the words of Gregory the Great.{1}….
But for the Romans they were Roman generals to whom the Emperor had abandoned the government of the civil population. It was as Roman generals that they approached the Romans,{2} and they were proud to bear the title on such occasions: we have only to recall the cavalcade of Clovis when he was created honorary consul. Under Theodoric an even simpler state of affairs prevailed. He was really a Roman viceroy. He promulgated not laws but edicts only.
Quote ID: 8221
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 373 Page: 46
Section: 3D2
Theodoric assumed merely the simple title of rex, as though he wished his Barbarian origin to be forgotten.
Quote ID: 8222
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 373 Page: 46
Section: 3D2
Theodoric struck coins, but in the name of the Emperor. He adopted the name of Flavius,{4} a sign that he had adopted the Roman nationality.
Quote ID: 8223
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 373 Page: 47
Section: 3D2
The organization of the judiciary was entirely Roman, even for the Goths; and the Edict of Theodoric was thoroughly Roman.
Quote ID: 8224
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 373 Page: 47
Section: 3D2
In short, the Goths were the military basis of the royal power, which in other respects was Roman.
Quote ID: 8225
Time Periods: ?
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