Our Fathers Have Told Us: Part I. The Bible of AmiensRuskin, John
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Our Fathers Have Told Us: Part I. The Bible of Amiens
Ruskin, John
Cathédrale d'Amiens; France -- History
Clovis, King of the Franks, 7.
" birth of, 466 A.D., 52. ii. 49.
" character of, 13.
" death and last years of, 49 sq. ii. 44.
" family of, 51. ii. 48.
" name, meaning of the, 51. ii. 48.
" reign of, 13.
" crowned at Amiens, 481 A.D., 27. ii. 2.
" " at Rheims, 9.
" defeat of by Ostrogoths, at Arles, 50. ii. 47.
" passes the Loire, at Tours, 20.
" and the Soissons vase, 47-8. ii. 41-3.
" summary of its events, 51. ii. 49.
" victories of, (Soissons, Poitiers, Tolbiac,) 9. 21. i. n.
" " the Franks after his, 46. ii. 38.
" religion of:--
" prays to the God of Clotilde, 7, 9, 13; 54. ii. 54.
" conversion to Christianity by S. Remy, 13, 14.
" his previous respect for Christianity, 52 n. ii. 49 n.
" " " " " S. Martin's Abbey, 20.
" his Christianity, analysed, 50. ii. 47.
" Rheims enriched by, 52. ii. 49.
" S. Genevieve, Paris, founded by, 55. ii. 55.
----, son of Childeric, 7.
" " " " invades Italy, 38 n. ii. 28 n.
" " " " reign of, 7.
Cockatrice, sculpture of the, Amiens Cathedral, 110. iv. 33-4.
Cockneyism, history writing and, 13.
Cockneyism, 'Mossoo,' 38. ii. 27.
" priests and, 119. iv. 41.
Coinage, the Black Prince's leopard, 117. iv. 41.
Colchos, tribes of the lake of, 31. ii. 11.
Cologne, battlefield of Tolbiac from, 54. ii. 54.
Commerce and protestantism, 79. iii. 43.
Competition will not produce art, 90 n. iv. 4.
" " and the Franks, 41 n. ii. 31.
Constantine, Emperor, power of, 54. ii. 54.
" " lascivious court of, 67. iii. 20.
Constantius, Emperor, a Dacian, 32 n. ii. 15.
Courage, figure of, Amiens Cathedral, 117. iv. 41.
Covetousness, and atheism, 119. iv. 41.
Cowardice, figure of, Amiens Cathedral, 117. iv. 41.
Creasy, Sir E., "History of England," 59 iii. 5, 6.
Crecy, battle of, Edward II. fords the, 1.
Crime, the history of, its possible lessons, 12.
Cross, the power of the, in history, 79. iii. 42.
" protestant view of the, as a raft of salvation, 80. iii. 43.
Crown, the, of Hope, 119. iv. 41.
Cyrene, 63. iii. 13.
Dacia, contest of, with Rome, 30. ii. 9.
" five Roman emperors from, 32 n. ii. 15 n.
Daedalus, 101, iv. 19.
Dalmatia, 68. iii. 23.
Danes, the, 31. ii. 12.
Daniel, statue, etc., of, Amiens Cathedral, 114. iv. 38; 121. iv. 42.
quatrefoils: 'traditional visit of Habakkuk to,' 125. iv. 43.
" the stone cut without hands, 133. iv. 51.
Dante, as a result of the Bible, 80. iii. 44.
" Christian-heathen poet, 102. iv. 20.
" Virgil's influence on, 86. iii. 53.
" quoted: "Paradise" (28), 111 n. iv. 36.
" " " (125), 120. iv. 41.
Danube, tribes of the, 31. ii. 1.
Darwinism, 40. ii. 30; 126. iv. 43.
Dates, recollection of exact, 26, 33. ii. 1, 2, 17.
David and monastic life, 70. iii. 26.
" statue of, Amiens Cathedral, 109 sq. iv. 31.
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