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Identifier: historyofallnati08wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ula and other noble ladies. He wears the costume of the members of the Abbey ofSt. Martin, —a chasuble, surplice, and long tunic. The ladies sit upon the samebench with him; they wear garments and veils in part embroidered with gold; andtheir costume, except the veil, resembles that of the men. At St. Jeromes left aretwo monks writing. The bench upon which they sit is of a type common throughoutthe Middle Ages, where it used to rim along the walls of rooms. The tower-like ob-ject at the right was at once a bookcase and a writing-desk. Such articles of furni-ture, known as armaria, were in use as late as the twelfth century. A revolvingcylinder was fastened in the armarium; to this the strips of parchment were attachedupon which the scribes wrote. The various forms of books in the early Middle Agesare well illustrated in this miniature ; we see leaves of different shapes, oblong as wellas square ; books bound in modern fashion, or in rolls, composed of narrow stripsstitched together.
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THE ROMANCE AND GERMANIC PEOPLES. 199 gives proof of this, and was adapted and calculated gradually tounite the two races together in a fellowsldp \\hich could not bebroken. The success of his policy was, however, restricted becausethe advocates of the ideas which sprang from memories of the Ro-man empire dreamed of one universal state and one universal church;and the process by which this unity was to be secured threatened todestroy the national characteristics of the Teutons. It was the hos-tility which Louis the Pious excited by recklessly sanctioning thesecentrahzing and equalizing tendencies that first aroused and strength-ened in the German tribes the consciousness of their being a distinctnation. The same cause also contributed much to the political sei)a-ration which sundered the Germans from the Romance peoples inthe period when the Carolingians were engaged in family feuds andwars about questions of inheritance. The first public expression ofthis separation was, as has alrea

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