CONTENTS
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PAGES
- (1) General Asceticism—(2) Specific Asceticism—(3) Anchoritism—Palladius—(4) Cœnobitism—(5) Regulated Monasticism
147–159 DIVISION II
THE MOHAMMEDAN PERIOD
- No Middle Ages in the Oriental Churches—Mohammed—The Doctrines of Islam—Heraclius and his Victories—The Advance of the Arabs—Treatment of Christians by Mohammedans
160–173 - Byzantine and Gothic Architecture—The Basilica—St. Sophia—Icons
174–186 - Revival of the Empire—Leo the Isaurian—Iconoclasm—Constantine Copronicus—The Abbot Stephen
187–200 - Leo the Armenian—Constantine Porphyrogenitus—The Empress Irene—Seventh General Council (Second Nicæa)—Leo's Reforms—John of Damascus—Theodore of Studium
201–215
