The Poems Of Saint Columban

Author : John Joseph Laux
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230295435
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Witings of Saint Columban, 542?-615 written by John Joseph Laux and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... At The Lombard Court. about fifty years before Columban's arrival in Italy the last wave of the Volkerwanderung--the Migration of the Nations--had swept over the Peninsula. The story of the Lombard conquest is a story of blood and iron. The pages of Paul Warnefrid,1 the historian of the Lombards, read at times like fragments of an epic poem, so full are they of deeds of prowess and wanton bloodshed, of crime and vengeance. When we hear of the Lombards (Langobards) for the first time in the reign of Augustus, they had their seats on the lower Elbe, south of the Angles and Saxons and southwest of the Vandals, and formed part of the confederacy of German tribes known as the kingdom of Marbod. Moving southward in the fourth century, they were subjected by the Huns and regained their independence only after the death of Attila. At the beginning of the sixth century they settled on the Danube, in what is now Lower Austria; and a little later we find them, under King Audoin, south of the Middle Danube on lands given to them by Justinian. During the long and bloody wars for the possession of Rome between the Goths and the Byzantines thousands of Lombards fought in the armies of Belisarius and Narses against Totila and Teias, and their glowing accounts of the beauty and fertility of Italy ripened in Alboin, Audoin's successor, the long-cherished plan of possessing himself of the Pearl of the Empire. The immediate occasion of the Lombard invasion is said to have been an invitation extended to Alboin by Narses, who, enraged at the appointment of a new Exarch, had resolved to make the hardy warriors of Pannonia the instruments of his vengeance. However that may be, in the year 568, after defeating his eastern neighbors, the Gepidae, so decisively...