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...Professor Pirenne continued to trace the growth of European cities from the time of the Moslem invasion. "At this period," he stated, "the western portion of Europe was entirely cut off from intercourse with the East and the Mediterranean lands. The consequence was a complete disappearance of the former Roman cities, and in their stead arose a civilization essentially devoted to agricultural pursuits. From this time dates the manorial system when all the land belonged to the lords and the clergy...
...closing he discussed the reasons for the disappearance of cities after the decline of the Roman Empire, stating that it was Islam that destroyed them...
...lectures by Dr. George La Piana, Instructor in Church History. 1. The Background of Early Roman Christianity. 2. Group-life in the Roman Christian Community. 3. Dawn of the Roman Primacy. 4. The African Colony in Rome and the Latinization of the Church. 5. Progressive and Conservative Parties in the Roman Christian Community. 6. Rome and Carthage in the Third Century. Mondays and Thursdays at 8.00 P. M., beginning Monday, November...
...moreover, that Boston should be the first to condemn and banish the labours of its own sons in order that the homes of those sturdy descendants of the Puritans, -- the O'Rourkes, the Flahertys and the O'Houlihans,--may be kept inviolate even as that stern-eyed Roman, the elder Brutus, sentenced to death his own son for treachery to the state...
...behind this "trivial difference" over the status of private property is what is coming to be regarded as the new alignment of the Powers. France, England, and Italy are all nations firmly founded upon the fundamental security of private property. Behind all of them stands the tremendous shadow of Roman civilization. Russia, and to a certain extent Germany, never came under the sway of Rome and never became so wholly saturated with the traditions of private property. Napoleon's famous saying, "Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar", is being vindicated. Russian civilization, at least its representatives...