Hence it is, that we find ourselves escaped from primeval and mediaeval tyrannies only to fall under greater ones; society is none the less inexorable in her despotisms because of the sophistry which gives her victims fancied freedom.
In the Spartan and Roman republics the moral ideal was patriotism; among mediaeval Churchmen it took the form of asceticism; after the elevation of woman the central idea was female chastity.
It formed the real close of the Mediaeval period and the beginning of our Modern age.
To take but two instances, from Winchester, which may serve to illustrate this and at the same time to show the zeal with which the mediaeval Bishops endeavoured to guard against the evil.
Fifteen days more of river carriage, however, was required before the produce of the Eastern marts reached Cairo, or Babylon, as it was called by mediaeval writers.
The bandolier made him look something like a mediaeval musketeer; or might have reminded an admirer of Dumas' wonderful story--and who is not?
For instance, the ancient house of Chavenage by Tetbury, or in the opposite direction, where the northern escarpments of the Cotswolds rise out of the beautiful Evesham Vale, those historic mediaeval houses of Southam and Postlip.
Originally the scene of the combats of Roman gladiators, in mediaeval times it was probably used for the pastime of bull-baiting, a barbarous amusement which has happily long since died out.
Indeed, as with Arthur Hallam in our own times, so it was with Falkland in the mediaeval age.
There, on the right, is Mapledurham, a grand mediaeval building, surrounded by such a wealth of stately trees as you will see nowhere else.
The Fleece Hotel is one of the largest and most beautiful of the mediaeval buildings.
The two weird figures in white cloaks, with only slits for the eyes, like Brothers of the Misericordia of Mediaeval Italy, only in white, instead of black, sat opposite each other.
The narrative popular chant became in their hands the Epic, or the mediaeval rhymed romance.
The plots and situations of some ballads are, indeed, the same as those of some literary mediaeval romances.
The mediaeval minstrels and jongleurs (who may best be studied in Leon Gautier's Introduction to his Epopees Francaises) sang in Court and Camp.
The book is drawn from one of the most widely-read works of mediaeval times.
Hope lit up my lord Tony's wan face: he believed in his friend as mediaeval ascetics believed in the saints whom they adored.
And he himself is far more inaccessible than was le Roi Soleil in the days of his most towering arrogance, than were the Popes in the glorious days of mediaeval Rome.
In fact, in these ancient times, the Yamato race and the aborigines had their headquarters in the same localities, respectively, as the Imperial and Feudal governments had in mediaeval and modern times.
Berlin is so mediaeval in its views that they want war, universal war.
He began all right, talking of art for art's sake, but soon lost the subject and, before anybody knew how it had happened, was explaining the fundamental difference between mediaeval and modern counterpoint.
What this Archduke has done to me to-day, in our time of enlightenment, is nothing else than an act of mediaeval brutality.
He was not that high priest made of benign charity, and love for all men--of whom the mediaeval sages mused.
Again the vast basilica, the rustling mediaeval crowd in all its glow of colour and picturesqueness of grouping, rises before us.
It is a little premature, and harmonises ill with the other features of the man, to describe him as a true mediaeval Nuncio, with all the subtle powers and arrogant assumptions of the Rome of the middle ages.
This strange duration of trouble, equal in intensity though different in form, is specially manifest in a history such as that which we take up from one age to another in so remarkable a development of life and government as Mediaeval Rome.
The long feud which ran into every local channel, and rent every mediaeval town asunder with the struggles of Guelfs and Ghibellines, thus originated amid events that shook the world.
For justice, we must do as the mediaevalcities did--call in a stranger.
A nation which attends quietly to its own sober business must, according to their mediaeval notions, be a nation of decadent poltroons.
That the mediaeval Catholic view had its after effect on him ought not to be denied.
Here too he destroyed not only the mediaeval tradition, but even that of the ancient Church such as we may trace it back right into the 2nd century.
It is also introduced in mediaeval heraldry, but there seems to be no reference in any book of this period to lead us to suppose that it was then regarded as a living verity.
One of the most notable beliefs in mediaeval times was that in the headless people:-- "The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Mediaeval medicine-men surely must have been somewhat chary of adopting the now familiar legend "Prescriptions accurately dispensed," when the onus of making up such a mixture could be laid upon them.
Our illustration is a representation of the sea lion as believed in, or at least delineated, by the author of one of the mediaeval treatises on more or less natural history that has come under our notice.
In a mediaeval work we are told that "the turning joint in the chine of a dragon doth promise an easy and favourable access into the presence of great lords.
The Fire-Drake was, according to mediaeval fancy, a fiery serpent or dragon, keeping guard over hidden treasure.
People generally imagine that all monastic establishments have been alike; that those of mediaeval times were simply the reproduction of earlier ones.
The great mass of the nation came consequently then, even legally, under the law of mediaeval times, which surrendered the decision of such cases into the hands of the Roman Pontiff.
Hence the owning of land under feudal tenure was the great and only essential characteristic of mediaeval feudalism.
In some few instances, a particular Roman municipal city may have passed into a mediaeval corporate town under a new charter and with extended rights; but this was certainly the exception.
How many millions of human beings lived happily during several centuries under these great institutions of mediaeval times!
The rising of the communes, one of the greatest features of mediaeval Europe, did not extend to Ireland, separated as it then was from the Continent.
To this was owed the immense number of charters granted at that time, many of which, lately published, tend better than any thing else to give us an insight into the origin of municipal life in mediaeval Europe.
Instead of covering their limbs with coats of mail, like the warriors of mediaeval Europe, they wore woollen garments even in war, and for ornaments chains or plates of precious metal.
They were free from that dark conception of a devil which lent terror to life in the Middle Ages; and the morbid self-consciousness which led mediaeval women to immure themselves in convents would have been to an Athenian quite inexplicable.
And finally, what a mediaevalrecklessness of dates is shown in lugging into the story John the Grammarian, who was dead and in his grave when Alexandria was taken by Amrou!
Nine tenths of the guesses which might have occurred to a mediaeval philosopher would now be ruled out as inadmissible, because they would not harmonize with the knowledge which has been acquired since the Middle Ages.
We seem to have got rid of the mediaeval plague and many of its typhoid congeners; but instead we have an increased amount of insanity, methomania, consumption, dyspepsia, and paralysis.
And those who are familiar with the phenomena of mediaeval delusions will be unwilling to draw too hasty an inference from this alone.
There is in the story that quiet, stealthy humour which is characteristic of many mediaeval apologues, and in which Lessing himself loved to deal.
Woodward ought also to be named for her clever treatment of mediaeval life in black and white.
They are decorative in themselves, and, though quite distinct in feeling, and original, they are more akin to the work of the Mediaeval miniaturist than anything that had been seen since his days.
You remarked then, a propos of all its mediaeval horrors, instruments of torture, and so forth--that there seemed a time when the world must have been under Satanic rule instead of under that of a good Providence.
And her voice, soothing, acquiescent, expressive of the spirit which gathers in extraneous woes as the mediaeval saint drew to his breast the swords of the executioners, continued to murmur in the hall.
We were in a perfect mediaeval city, just as it existed in the time of the Crusades.
Its great assemblage of towers, walls, and battlements, rising clear-cut and majestic against the sky, suggests at the first glimpse one of those imaginary mediaeval cities that Dore loved to draw as illustrations to the Contes Drolatiques.
I never thoroughly realised before the awful might of kings in feudal and mediaeval days.
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