The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on HistoryAdams, Brooks
Philosophy
The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History
Adams, Brooks
Civilization -- History; Degeneration; History -- Philosophy
Puritans: reject royal supremacy 264;
resist ecclesiastical confiscation 270;
eviction of clergy 285;
emigration of 285;
foes of Spaniards 289.
Pyrrhus: admires Roman infantry 11;
defeat of 11.
Raleigh: family of 255;
captures Madre-de-Dios 257;
death of 257.
Raymond de Poitiers: at feud with de Courtney 107;
breach with Louis VII. 117;
death of 118.
Rebellion: of Pilgrimage of Grace 216;
suppression of 222;
Kett’s 250;
in West of England 250, 252.
Reformation: an economic movement 188;
in England 230;
under Edward VI. 259, 260;
_see_ Church of England, Convents, Lollards.
Reginald de Chatillon 121.
Regulus: poverty of 15.
Relics: magical 64;
gifts to 65;
list of English 66;
worship of cause of crusades 81;
true cross 119;
plunder of at Constantinople 148;
despised 151;
relic worship costly 192–196;
desecrated in England 200.
Rent: rise of money value of in Rome 32;
effect of 33, 34;
substitution of for military service 245;
rises in sixteenth century 247;
effect of rise 248;
rise of in seventeenth century 283;
fall of after 1815 causes insolvency of landlords 332;
dependent on Corn Laws 340;
fall of after 1873 ruins gentry 348.
Ridley: doctrine concerning sacrament 261;
burned 282.
Robinson, John: congregation of 285.
Rome: early society of 1;
classes in 2;
law of debt in 2–4;
early army of 9;
not maritime 12;
slavery in 13;
economic revolution in 14;
a plutocracy 15;
annexes Egypt 17;
senators land-owners 21;
great domains of 21;
conquests of 23;
unable to compete with Asia 23;
foreign exchanges unfavourable to 23;
insolvent 28;
decline of 37;
ceases breeding soldiers 40;
later emperors of foreign adventurers 40;
governed by a monied oligarchy 41;
economic type autocratic in 42;
women of emancipated 43;
paid police of 45;
barbarian invasions 46, 47;
domestic relations in 369;
art of 372;
architecture of 381;
_see_ Coinage, Slaving, Usurers, Usury.
Rothschilds: rise of 322;
establish house in London 323.
Russell, John, Earl of Bedford: conducts trial of
Abbot of Glaston 241.
Saint Bernard: birth of 108;
enters Citeaux 108;
founds Clairvaux 109;
recognizes Innocent II. 110;
preaches second crusade 112;
miracles of 113;
declines to lead crusade 114;
remarks on defeat of crusade 118.
Saint Cuthbert: plunder of shrine of 239.
Saint Denis: Abbey of 154.
Saint Riquier: sacrilege at 162.
Saint Sophia: architecture of 89, 377;
desecration of 145.
Saint Thomas à Becket: shrine of 65.
Saint Thomas Aquinas: veneration of for Eucharist 67.
Saladin: sends physician to Richard 94;
crowned Sultan 104;
kills Reginald de Chatillon 121;
Hattin 122;
campaign against Richard 130;
treats with Richard 131.
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