Ambrose, St., miracle related of, i. 80. His protest against the execution of some heretics, ii. 26 America, cases of witchcraft in, in the seventeenth century, i. 130. Pro- testant persecutions of the Catholics and Quakers in, ii. 46. Slavery in, compared with that of the Greeks and Romans, 254
Amsterdam, one great cause of its pro- sperity, ii. 310
Amulets, value attributed by fetishism to, i. 211
Amulo, archbishop of Lyons, his view of Gotteschalk's opinions as to double predestination, i. 424 note
Amusements, public, influence of wealth and luxury upon the character of, ii.
Anabaptists, persecution of, in England, under Queen Elizabeth, ii. 43. And in Switzerland, 46. Position assigned to them by Bossuet, 59. Their no- tion of the sleep of the soul between death and judgment, 82 note. Calvin's book against it, 82 note Anæsthesia, a symptom of some of the forms of madness, i. 114 Ancyra, Council of, condemns the be- lief in lycanthropy, i. 82 Angel, St. Augustine on the meaning of the word, i. 24 note. Pagan genii identified with guardian angels, 221. One assigned by the Talmud to every star and every element, 310. This notion represented in old Christian painting and sculpture, 310 note. Gradual decline of this belief, 310. Angels universally believed to have cohabited with the daughters of the antediluvians, 373 Angelico, Fra, his character and that of his works, i. 259 Anglicanism, the old Puritan's descrip-
tion of, ii. 44 note. Servility and enmity of, to public liberty, 193. Lord Macaulay on the subject quoted, 193 note. 'Homilies on Wilful Re- bellion' quoted, 194, 195. Every reaction supported by it, 197. Ex- ceptional position of Hooker, 199. Predisposition of Anglicanism to- wards despotism, 201. Anglican notions on allegiance to the sovereign de facto, 204 note. Its treatment of the theatre, 354
Anglo-Saxons, their measures for alle- viating the condition of slaves, ii. 260
Animals, belief in the connection be. tween evil spirits and, i. 81. Use made of animals in Christian sym- bolism, 81 note. Ascription of intel- ligence to animals in the middle ages, 82 note. Mystic animals among the Celts, 82 note. Innkeepeers who were said to have turned their guests into animals, 83 note. The higher forms of animal beauty appreciated by the Greek sculptors, 250 note. Descartes' doctrine of animals, i. 377 note. Stahl founds the psychology of animals, 377 note
Antony, St., miracles related of, i. 152, 154
Anthropomorphism, the second stage
of religious belief, i. 212. The go- vernment of the universe then as- cribed by men to beings like them- selves, 212. But, unable to concen- trate their attention on the Invisible, they fall into idolatry, 213. Progress of anthropomorphism, 223. Conclu- sion of the anthropomorphic impulse shown by St. Peter's at Rome, 283 Antiphons, legendary origin of, ii. 342 Antipodes, controversy in the early
Church as to the existence of the, i. 293. Correct doctrine stumbled upon by the Manichæans, 293. Existence of the Antipodes denied by the Fathers, 293, 294. And by Cosmas in his Topographia Christiana,' 294. Their existence asserted by St. Vir- gilius, 299
Apelles, painted Lais, i. 268 Apocalyptic subjects in Christian art, i. 262
Apollo, in Greek statues, the type of male beauty, i. 255
Apparitions, the belief in, one of the corner-stones of the psychology of the Fathers, i. 371. Predisposition of the Greeks to see ghosts, 371 note Apparitions seen by the ancients, 373 Apples, the supposed especial power of the devil over, i. 4 note
Aquatic deity, pagan representation of an, adopted by Christian art, i. 221 Aquinas, St. Thomas, his belief in the power of the devil, i. 72. On the connection between spirits and ani- mals, 83 note. On infant baptism, 395 note. His notion of the locality of hell, 378 note. His remarks in favour of persecution, ii. 2. His assertion of the right to rebel against unjust
sovereigns, 158. His views re- specting usury, 285. His remarks on the Jews, 301. His Histriones' quoted, 332 and note Arabs, influence of their works on the intellectual energies of Christendom, ii. 323
Arcadius, the emperor, suppresses the works of Eunomius, ii. 127, 128 Archers, English, their skill, ii. 231 Architecture, the only form of art open to the Mahomedans, i. 246. The Alhambra and Alcazar of Seville, 246. The works of Greek archi- tects at Ravenna, Venice, &c., 257. Introduction of the form of the cross in the ground plan of churches, 263 note. Transition which took place in architecture, 277. Period of the origin of Gothic architecture, 278. Fitness of Gothic as Christian archi- tecture, 279. Hutchinson on the causes of the ancient preference of Gothic to Roman Architecture, 280 note. Style altered by Brunelleschi, 281. Superiority of Gothic archi- tecture for distances, and its influence on the stage, ii. 344
Arians, ascendency of the, in the East, in the reign of Valens, i. 36. Their persecutions, ii. 14. Intolerance of the Spanish Arians, 14 note. Perse- cuted by Constantine, 15. Persecu- tions of, under Elizabeth, ii. 43 Aristocratical system, its influence in consolidating the doctrine of here- ditary merit, i. 392
Aristotle, his position in the Church in the middle ages owing to the early heretics, i. 415 note. His views re- specting the exercise of mechanical arts, ii. 252. And respecting slavery, 254. On the sterility of money, 284 Arras, trials at, in 1459, i. 3 note Art, the most faithful expression of religious realisation, during the con- tinuance of idolatry, i. 214. Influ- ence of the national religions on the art of the ancients, 214. The art of the Catacombs, and its freedom from idolatry, 216.
Effect of Pagan tra- ditions upon Christian art, 216. Its freedom from terrorism in early times, 218. Its great love of sym- bolism, 219. Symbol of the peacock, 219. And of Orpheus, 220. Ex- amples of the introduction of pagan gods into Christian art, 220 note.
Masks of the sun and moon as em- blems of the resurrection, 221. The Pagan genii of the seasons as guar- dian angels, 221. The symbol of the fish (ix0ús), 221. And of the stag, 222. Other subjects taken from Old Testament symbols, 222. Causes of the growing tendency to represent directly the object of wor- ship, 223. Portraits of God the Father, 223. Materialisation of every spiritual conception from the sixth to the twelfth centuries, 224. In- fluence of Gnosticism over Chris- tian art, 224. Progress of the re- presentation of the Creator in art. 226. Influence of the Apocryphal Gos- pels, 230. Probable Gnostic origin of the conventional cast of features ascribed to Christ, 230. Influence of painting and sculpture in strength- ening Mariolatry, 233. Architecture the only form of art open to the Mahomedans, 246. Character of Christian art in the middle ages, 247. Gold and silver carving, and ivory diptychs, 248 note. Illumin- ation of manuscripts, 248. Influence of medieval modes of thought upon art, 249 note. Period in which the ascetic ideal of ugliness was most supreme, 252 note. The Abbé Pas- cal on mediæval art, 252 note. The work of Bishop Durandus, 252 note. Greek idolatry fading into art, 253. Its four stages, 254. A corresponding transition in Christendom, 256 Greek influence on Christian art, 256. In Italy, 257 note. Effects on art of the tradition of the personal deformity of Christ, 259. The Byzantine style broken by a study of ancient Greek sculpture, 258. Christian school of Giotto and Fra Angelico, 259. general efflorescence of the beautiful produced by the revival of learning in Europe, 260. Apocalyptic sub- jects, 262. Progress of terrorism in art, 263. Religious paintings re- garded simply as studies of the beau tiful, 265. Causes of this seculari- sation of art, 266. Influence upo art of sensuality, 268. And of ori- ental robes, 270 note. Influence of the discovery of many great works of pagan sculpture, 271. History of Greek art after the rise of Chris- tianity, 272. The types of Christian
replaced by those of Pagan art. 274. Reaction in favour of spiritualism led by Savonarola, 275. Rapidity of the secularisation of art after the death of Savonarola, 276. Never afterwards assumed a commanding influence over the minds of men, 277. Transition which took place in ar- chitecture, 277. Intellectual im- portance of the history of art, 284 Ascetism. See Monasticism Asses, Feast of, ii. 336. Origin of the, 337 note
Astrologers, called Mathematici, i. 45
Astrology, revival of the in the middle ages, i. 51. remarks on, as a science, 303. Peter of Apono's attempt to construct a system of religions by the aid of, 303 note. Cardan and Vanini's ho- roscope of Christ, 303 note. Bodin
on the influence of the stars over the development of societies, 303. Astronomy displaces the ancient notion
of man's position in the universe, i. 302. Beauty of the suggestion of Dr. Chalmers respecting insignificance of the earth, 304 note. Views of the ancient astronomers as to the motion of the celestial bodies, 305 note. Cause of the growth of the science of astronomy, 309. Coper- nicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Tycho Brahe, 309. Descartes' theory of vortices, 309. Comets, 310. Halley's prediction of their revolution, 312. Laplace on the argument of design derived from the motions of the pla- netary bodies, 319 note
Atheism, Glanvil's character of, in his
time, i. 126 note. Loose senses in which the word atheism has been used, 126 note Atmospheric disturbances attributed to the power of the devil, and of witches, i. 76
Augury, how punished by the Emperor Constantius, i. 31
Augustine, St., on the meaning of the word angel, i. 24 note. Regarded lycanthropy as a fable, 82, 83 note. On the miracles worked by the re- lics of St. Stephen, 178 note. His defence of Genesis against the Manichæans, 290. His opinion of incorporeity of the soul, 372 note. His remarks on the existence of mice,
376 note. His view of infant bap- tism, 396. His views as to the con- demnation of all external to the Church, 414. The theory of predes- tination substantially held by St. Augustine, i. 422. The theology of persecution systematised by him, ii. 22. Notice of his character and in- fluence, 22-24. His aversion to the effusion of blood, 25. Condemns re- ligious liberty, 26 note
Authority, examination of the basis or principle of, on which all political structures rest, ii. 149
Averroes, influence of, over the whole intellect of Europe, i. 53. Renan's essay on, 53 note. Orgagna's picture of, at Pisa, 53 note. Impulse given to psychology by the school of, 374 Avitus, St., his verse on infant baptism quoted, i. 398 note
Ayala, Balthazar, his defence of tyran- nicide under some circumstances, ii. 177
BACCHUS, in Greek statues, a
type of disgraceful effeminacy, i.
Bacon, Lord, his view of witchcraft, i.
115. Influence of his philosophy on its decline, 119. On the cause of the paralysis of the human faculties in the middle ages, 302. Enlighten- ment of his age, 313 note His in- ability to grasp the discoveries of the astronomers of his time, 313 note. Causes of his influence, 441, 443. Carpings of the Tractarian party at the inductive philosophy of Bacon,
Bacon, Roger, his persecution, i. 302. Influence of Arabian learning over him, ii. 323
Bagpipes, praised by Julian in one of his epigrams, i. 278 note
Ballot, the, advocated by Harrington in the seventeenth century, ii. 160 note Baltimore, Lord, upholds religious liberty, ii. 58
Bamberg, great number of witches burnt at, i. 4
Baptism, fetish notions in the early Church respecting the water of, i. 209. Unanimity of the Fathers con- cerning the non-salvability of unbap. tised infants, 394. Opinion as to a special place assigned to unbaptised infants, 395. The baptism of
blood' and the baptism of perfect love,' 395 note. Opinions of Pela- gius, St. Augustine, Origen, and St. Fulgentius, 396, 397. Super- stitious rites devised as substitutes for regalar baptism, 398, 399 note. Doctrine of the Church of Rome as enunciated by the Council of Trent, 401. Conflicting tendencies on the subject produced by the Reforma- tion, 400. Effects of the Ana- baptist movement, 401. Cases of baptism by sand and wine, 401 note. Doctrines of the Lutherans and Calvinists, 402. The doctrine of original sin rejected by Socinus, 408. By Zuinglius, 410. And by Chil- lingworth and Jeremy Taylor, 411
Barbarians, conversion of the, causes idolatry to become general, i. 239 Barberini, Cardinal, his musical parties, ii. 351 note
Barclay, William, first denied the power of the Pope over the tem- poral possessions of princes, ii. 182 note. On lawful resistance to tyranny, 201
Baroni, Leonora, her singing, ii. 351
note. Milton's Latin poems addressed to her, 351 note
Bartholomew, St., success of persecution shown in the case of the massacre of, ii. 5. Heaven thanked by a Pope for the massacre of, 41
Bartolomeo, Fra, influence of Savona- rola over him, i. 276
Basil, St., devotion of the monks of, to painting, ii. 261
Baxter, Richard, his defence of the per- secution of witches, i. 9, 117. His account of the death of Lowes, 117
lar, ii. 64. His influence on religious liberty in France, 64. His Con- trains-les d'entrer,' 64. Arguments by which his principles were deve- loped, 67, 68. His advocacy of the doctrine of passive obedience, 239. The Avis aux Refugiez' ascribed to him, 239 note Bayonet, importance of the invention of the, to democracy, ii. 232 Bear-baiting, not formerly regarded as inhuman, i. 331, 332
Bears, dancing, their connection with the devil, i. 81 note
Beaumarchais, his charity, ii. 264 note Beauty, Greek worship of every order of, i. 250. Beauty of some of the higher forms of animal life, dis- played in Greek sculpture, 250 note. Departure of mediæval art from the beautiful, 252. A gene- ral efflorescence of the beautiful the result of the revival of learning in Europe, 260. Influence of voluptu-
ous beauty upon art, 271 note. The feeling of reverence gradually en- croached upon and absorbed by that of beauty, 285
Beccaria, his opposition to torture in Italy, i. 363
Becket, St. Thomas à, hymn on the Virgin ascribed to, quoted, i. 232
Bedell, Bishop, respect with which he was treated by the rebel Catholics, ii. 7. His life, by Alexander Clogy,
Beelzebub, regarded as the god of flies, i. 81 note
Bégards, sect of the, i. 375 Belgium, monkish origin of many of the towns of, ii. 261, 262. First mercantile establishments in, 319 Belief, religious, fetishism probably the first stage of, i. 208. Anthropomor- phism the next stage, 212 Bellarmine, Cardinal, one of his argu- ments in favour of persecution, ii. 21 note. His support of the Pope's right to depose sovereigns, 161. His work burnt in Paris, 161
Bells, church, supposed invention of, by Paulinus, i. 278
Benedict XIV., Pope, his definition of usury, ii. 279 note. His decree against it, 291 Benedictines, their services in making labour honourable, ii. 261
217. His view of the regal power,
Body, the human, contrast between the pagan and Christian estimate of, i. 251, 252
Boeotians, their dislike of commerce, ii. 252
Boguet, president of the tribunal of St. Claude, his executions for lycan- thropy, i. 107
Bolingbroke, Lord, causes of the oblivion into which his works have passed, i. 192. Inimical to liberty, ii. 206
Bollandist collection of Lives of the Saints, i. 155 note
Bonaventura, St., his Psalter, in use at Rome, i. 235 note
Boniface, St., his attack on St. Virgilius,
Boots with pointed toes supposed to have been offensive to God, i. 60 Bossuet, attacks Zuinglius' notion of original sin, i. 410 note. Asserts the doctrine of salvation only in the Church, 421. Position assigned by him to Socinians and Anabaptists, ii. 59 Botticelli, the painter, influenced by Savonarola, i. 276
Bourdeaux, De Lancre's suggestion as to the cause of witchcraft about, i. 4
Brancas, Madame de, her performance of the character of Geometry, ii. 359
Brephotrophia, or asylums for children, in the time of Justinian, ii. 263 Brescia, Inquisition riots in, ii. 126. Bridles, witches', or iron collars used for extorting confession, i. 140, 141 note
Broedersen, his work on usury, ii. 291 Browne, Sir Thomas, his belief in the existence of witchcraft, i. 114, 115 note, 120
Bruges, luxury of, in the fourteenth century, ii. 312
Brunelleschi, his influence on Italian architecture, i. 281
Bruno, his philosophical speculations, i. 443. Burnt alive, 443
Bruyère, La, his opinions and influ- ence on the subject of witchcraft, i.
Buchanan, George, his Protestant li- beralism, ii. 190. His praise of the tyrannicides of antiquity, 190, 191.
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