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catalog alternative "Gesta Christi.".
catalog alternative "History of humane progress under Christianity.".
catalog contributor b5928664.
catalog created "1885, c1882.".
catalog date "1885".
catalog date "1885, c1882.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1885, c1882.".
catalog description "Arbitration : The expense and curse of war ; International law among the Greeks ; The Romans ; in the middle ages ; Cruelties and barbarism in war ; Treatment of prisoners ; of ambassadors ; Grotius' views ; Claims of Christian nations on heathen territory ; Privaterring ; Franklin- Congress of Paris, 1856 ; Inviolability of private property on the sea ; The new codes of Prof. ".
catalog description "Bluntschli, and the American instructions ; The wounded ; Arbitration ; History of modern cases; Mediation; Disputes as to territories ; The Geneva settlement ; Universal peace ; Internationl courts ; Objections ; International law among non-Christians : XXVIII Slave trade and slavery in modern times : Both Catholic and Protestant Churches guilty ; Sketch of slave trade ; Treaty of Utrecht ; Slave trade in British colonies ; in the United States ; Early anti-slavery position of the Churches ; Later weakness ; Origin of the opposition religious ; Other elements mingling : XXIX Modern serfdom : Royal ordinances against it in Prussia ; in France and Italy ; Christian ideas working against it ; Abolition in Germany, Hungary, Prussia, ".
catalog description "I Introduction : Plan of the work ; An investigation of the influence of Christianity on the practices, customs, laws and morals, (i) of the Roman period ; (2) The middle ages ; (3) The modern period -- ".
catalog description "I Roman Period : II Paternal power : Instances of paternal tyranny in Roman history ; Reforms in Constantine's and Justinian's legislation under Christian influences ; Succession of property ; Changes through stoical influences ; Reforms in Justinian's code ; The beginnings of modern reforms : III The position of woman under Roman law : Tutelage of woman ; Free marriage ; Reforms under Justinian's code ; Divorce ; Instances in the Roman period ; Reforms brought about by Christianity in Constantine's and Justinian's legislation ; Concubinage ; Improvements under Christianity : IV Personal Purity and marriage : Christ's influence on masculine purity, ".
catalog description "III Modern Period : XXIV The position of woman under modern influences : Position of woman since Christianity a composite one ; Christian idea entire equality of man and woman ; English common law inherits Teutonic prejudice of measuring civil rights by physical power ; The wife's legal existence suspended ; Coverture ; Woman under common law ; Equity courts; American legislation ; Reforms in New York ; Position of the mother ; Position of the young girl ; Partnership in property ; Female suffrage ; Woman in the United States ; In Europe ; Future of woman un agnosticism : XXV Divorce : Christian view ; Roman law ; Churchly doctrines ; Views of reformers ; European tendencies ; United States law ; Views of judges ; Laws in New York ; License of divorce ; Change of opinion in the United States ; Effects of free divorce in New York ; Future effects in America ; General happiness of marriage in the United States ; Concubinage; Humane progress : XXVI Degradation of woman : Apparent failure ".
catalog description "IX Distribution of property : Christ's teachings tending to more equitable distribution ; Charity ; roman Pauperism ; Roman charities ; Bequests ; Collegia ; Christian charity ; Refuges for orphans ; Stranger's rests ; Hospitals ; The code ; Christ's teachings opposed to pauperism ; Excessive almsgiving and monasticism not an effect of Christianity ; The problem not solved by the Christian religion, but its truths lead towards equal distribution : X Resume of reforms in Roman period : Christianity influenced Ptria potestas and succession of property ; Diminished unnatural vices ; Taught purity ; Put and end to exposure of children ; Founded charities and taught more equitable distribution of wealth ; Checked licentious and cruel sports, and caused humane legislation ; Mitigated and undermined slavery and serfdom ; Elevated woman and marriage ; Need of fresh races for the true work of religion ; afforded by the Keltic and German tribes -- II Middle Ages : XI Position of woman under the German tribes : German Chastity ; Tutelage of woman ; Purchase of wife ; Instances ; Scandinavian customs ; Subjection of woman ; Wife under power of husband in German law ; Position of woman having stamp of barbarism ; descended into English common law ; Free marriage ; Christianity strove to elevate woman and strengthen marriage ; Changed purchase-money into dower ; Lessened tutelage ; The dower ; Change of tutelage ; Religion opposed German prejudice that bodily strength was a condition of civil capacity ; Inferiority of woman continued in common law ; Sir Thomas Smith's statements ; Gains of Christianity : XII Personal feuds and private wars : Feuds universal in barbaric society ; Money-fines in place of revenge stimulated by religion ; feuds checked in holy days and places ; Instance from old Russian code ; Law and penalty substituted for private revenge, under influence of Christian faith :".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
catalog description "Liberal Government : Progress of ideas in favour of Freer intercourse ; Humanity between nations ; Treatment of inferior races ; Missions ; Popular education ; Churches ; Hope implanted ; Liberal government ; Diminution of pestilences, due only in part to religion : XXXIV Intemperance : Its evils in America and Europe ; Temperance movement ; Total Abstinence ; Influence of religion : XXXV Persecution : No foundation for in Christianity ; Guilt of the church ; Treatment of the Jews ; of Heretics and schismatics ; Liberal views of John Robinson ; of Grotius ; Experience of the United States :".
catalog description "THE MADONNA ; Raphael's Sistine Madonna ; The originality of this ideal; is religious power ; New religious life in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; Italian preachers ; Savonarola ; Luther ; Influence on art ; Cimabue ; Giotto ; Encouragement by synods and Popes -- Paining on Glass ; Fraterities of painters; their religious objects ; Francis d'Assisi ; his effect upon fra Angelico ; Character and works ; The Bologna school ; Lippo Dalmasio ; Savonarola; his influence on art ; Lorenzodi Credi ; Fra Bartolommeo ; Ridolfo Ghirlandajo ; Botticelli ; Michael Angelo ; Venetian school; Bellini and others ; The Umbrian school ; Perugino ; Raphael ; POINTED GOTHIC CATHERDRAL ; Origin of Pointed Gothic; its ideal and principles ; The pointed arch; its effect on structure ; The Cologne Catherdral; its religious power ; Gilds of Masons in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; their religious enthusiasm, Chraracter, honesty, and reverence of work; a Laical church; expressed their love of beauty and piety in building of cathedrals; sole conditions, the pointed arch, cruciform ground-plan, and suitability to climate ; But pointed Gothic a development from other styles ; spirit of founders of English cathedrals ; Free Masons or gilds of builders ; Their honesty of work often an unconscious religion; inspired by Christianity ; These two conceptions, the Madonna and the cathedral, side-gifts of the Christian faith.".
catalog description "XIII Private war and peace of God ; Arbitration : Forms of declaring private war ; Instances ; The desolation of Germany and France ; The peace of God ; Crusade of peace in France ; Efforts of religious men ; Pledge of peace ; Peace associations ; Councils ; Efforts of Popes ; A messenger of peace; Truce of God ; Peace in Germany ; Leagues of the Rhine ; Application of arbitration ; Forms ; Stimulated by religious sentiment ; Instances ; End of diffidation ; Abolition of private war in Spain, Italy and Iceland : XIV Wager of Battle and ordeal : Judicial duel among the northern tribes ; English practice ; Forms used ; Opposition of the spirit of Christianity ; The councils and Popes ; First forbidden in Iceland after its conversion ; Its abolition, slow ; Existed in England till the nineteenth century ; Ordeal first opposed by Church, then accepted and used ; Spirit of religion opposed it : XV Torture : Implanted by Roman law ; Early church opposed, then used it ; Description of tortures ; The strappado ; Torture in England ; Opposition of church : Subsequent acceptance ; Spirit of religion struggled against it ; Not abolished in parts of Europe till nineteenth century ; Recent abolition in Japan : XVI The strangers' rights : Teutonic Hostility to stranger ; Instances ; Droit d'aubaine in France ; Abolished in 1790 ; Other inequalities later ; The Teutonic legislation shows the influence of Christianity : XVII The wreckers' right, and piracy : All Teutonic codes urge humanity to the shipwrecked on religious grounds ; Instances ; Judgments of the sea ; Councils ; Humane legislation ; Treaties ; Piracy ; A form of private war : XVIII Charlemagne's capitularies : Teaching of morals on religious grounds ; Commands against feud, Oppression, and perjury ; In favour of marriage, and against divorce and unnatural vice ; Injunctions against oppression of the stranger and the poor ; Laws soon swept away, but showing influence of this faith :".
catalog description "XIX Anglo-Saxon law : Its spirit manifestly affected by Christianity ; Contrast to other codes ; Laws of old English kings ; King Wihtraed ; Alfred's dooms ; Moral teachings ; Sunday laws ; Humanity to shipwrecked ; False swearing ; King Ethelred's dooms ; Religious laws ; King Canute ; Saxon piety ; Feuds ; Ancient laws ; Alfred's injunctions ; All show the beginning of history of religious forces in England : XX Education in the middle ages : Christianity favourable to intellectual advance ; Early efforts of the church encouraging learning ; Early Christian schools ; councils ; Letter of Charlemagne ; Instruction of Theodolfus ; Copying manuscripts ; Thomas a Kempis ; The Pope's efforts ; Christian truth opens mind of man to truth : XXI Serfdom and slavery in the middle ages : The process by which serfdom arose ; Christian influence on slavery ; Slavery in the middle ages ; Acts of councils favourable to slaves ; Sunday laws ; Religious element in emancipation ; Forms of manumission ; Muratori and Marculfus ; Peasants' revolts under the liberal teaching of Christianity ; Their objects ; Effects on Villainage ; Emancipation gradual ; Freedom of serfs by Bologna ; Slave trade ; Emancipation in Germany ; Abolition in Scandinavia a direct effect of religion ; English slavery causes selling children ; Number of slaves in England ; Religious influence in Emancipation ; Christian brotherhood ; Gradual emancipation ; Forms ; Slave trade forbidden ; Slaves after the Norman conquest ; Religious forces causing emancipation ; Sir Thomas Smith's testimony ; Serfdom disappeared in reign of Charles I :".
catalog description "XXII Chivalry : Ideal of chivalry ; Original ; Forms and oaths religious ; Virtues taught corresponded to Christian Froissart ; Humanity ; Courtesy ; Pity ; Purity ; Brotherhood ; Devotion to woman ; The ideal an effect of Christianity on the German temperament ; Its defects and vices ; Uncertain how far chivalry was a reality ; The chivalric character endures under religious influences : XXIII Resume of reforms in the middle ages : (1) Value attached by Christianity to marriage and new position of woman ; (2) Restraint of feud and blood revenge ; (3) Checking private war by peace of God ; (4) Urging arbitration ; (5) Opposing judicial duel and ordeal : (6) Restraining torture ; (7) Commanding humanity to the stranger and shipwrecked ; (8) Power of religion over codes of law ; (9) Its influence on education : (10) Gradual effect on slavery and serfdom ; (11) Founding charities ; (12) Influence on the chivalric ideals ; Reasons of its want of full success -- ".
catalog description "XXVII International law -- ".
catalog description "XXXVI Humane progress among non-Christian people : Continuity of revelation ; Spiritual ideas of Hindoos ; Cast, and position of women ; Buddhism ; Inspiration of Buddha ; His defects ; The failure of this faith ; Confusionism ; Its merits and wants ; The Arabs ; Mohammedanism ; Its wants and failure ; Position of Mohammedan woman ; Buddhism, Brahmanism, Confucianism not adapted for humane progress ; Climate not alone the cause : XXXVII Objections, resume of reforms begun -- The future of mankind under Christianity : Objections that the Christian ideal is unmanly ; Unfit for the struggle for existence; Not favourable to accumulation of wealth, opposed to progress of Science and to liberal institutions ; objection to slow working of Christianity ; Obstructions ; The drift of evolution in favour of sympathy, unselfishness, and morality ; Christianity works with it, and adds a new force ; Its final tendency a perfect society ; Inference from the facts, and argument for the truth of the Christian religion : Supplementary Chapter : The influence of Christianity upon art in the middle ages : Supposed want of sympathy of the Christian religion with the sense of beauty ; Two highest conceptions in art from the influence of this faith ; namely (1) of the holy Madonna in painting, and (2)the pointed gothic Cathedral in architecture ;".
catalog description "and other countries : XXX The duel : Benthan's arguments for it ; Reply ; The struggle of the Church ; Its prevalence in France and England ; Public protests and laws against it ; Experience of the United States ; Its cessation due to Christianised public opinion : XXXI Prison reform and charities : Constantine's legislation ; Howard ; The "Irish" prison system ; American reforms ; Charities ; Societies to protect animals ; Humanization of punishments ; Cruel penalties of the past ; Modern improvements ; Imprisonment for debt ; The Sunday ; Its value to the world : XXXII Co-operation and pauperism : Co-operation ; Communism ; Insurance against poverty ; Religion lessening pauperism ; A socialist's views on Christianity : XXXIII Free Trade -- Humanity -- ".
catalog description "of Christianity ; Reforms begun; Masculine purity ; Efforts for children ; Effects of religion ; Hope for the future :".
catalog description "on Marriage ; His teachings as to separation ; Celibacy ; Effect of Christianity on position of woman ; unnatural vices ; Plato's principles as to their abolition ; Opposition of early Christians to them ; Victory of Christian principles : V Slavery : The silence of Christ ; explanation ; The slave in the church ; stoics and slavery ; Number of Roman slaves ; Reforms under the stoics ; Christian influence on legislation ; Emancipation as a religious duty ; Humanity towards slaves ; Justinian's reform ; Humanity under Christian influence ; Reforms under other emperors ; Gradual emancipation : VI Slaves in cruel and licentious sports : Bloody sports ; Reforms by Constantine ; Human sacrifices ; Licentious shows ; Feelings of the early Christians ; Reform in Roman laws ; Licentiousness restrained ; Ransoming captives ; Rehabilitation of labour ; Serfdom ; Reforms under religious teaching : VII Exposure of children : Allusions to it in Latin literature ; Mode of exposure ; Stoical ".
catalog description "protests ; The early father' denunciations ; Constantine's and Valentinian's legislation ; The councils ; Justinian's code ; Treatment of foundlings by the church ; Orphan asylums ; Charities for Children :".
catalog extent "xxiii, 520 p. ;".
catalog hasFormat "Gesta Christ, or, A history of humane progress under Christianity.".
catalog isFormatOf "Gesta Christ, or, A history of humane progress under Christianity.".
catalog issued "1885".
catalog issued "1885, c1882.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "New York : A. C. Armstrong & Son,".
catalog relation "Gesta Christ, or, A history of humane progress under Christianity.".
catalog subject "BR115.C5 B7".
catalog subject "Christianity.".
catalog subject "Civilization.".
catalog tableOfContents "Arbitration : The expense and curse of war ; International law among the Greeks ; The Romans ; in the middle ages ; Cruelties and barbarism in war ; Treatment of prisoners ; of ambassadors ; Grotius' views ; Claims of Christian nations on heathen territory ; Privaterring ; Franklin- Congress of Paris, 1856 ; Inviolability of private property on the sea ; The new codes of Prof. ".
catalog tableOfContents "Bluntschli, and the American instructions ; The wounded ; Arbitration ; History of modern cases; Mediation; Disputes as to territories ; The Geneva settlement ; Universal peace ; Internationl courts ; Objections ; International law among non-Christians : XXVIII Slave trade and slavery in modern times : Both Catholic and Protestant Churches guilty ; Sketch of slave trade ; Treaty of Utrecht ; Slave trade in British colonies ; in the United States ; Early anti-slavery position of the Churches ; Later weakness ; Origin of the opposition religious ; Other elements mingling : XXIX Modern serfdom : Royal ordinances against it in Prussia ; in France and Italy ; Christian ideas working against it ; Abolition in Germany, Hungary, Prussia, ".
catalog tableOfContents "I Introduction : Plan of the work ; An investigation of the influence of Christianity on the practices, customs, laws and morals, (i) of the Roman period ; (2) The middle ages ; (3) The modern period -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "I Roman Period : II Paternal power : Instances of paternal tyranny in Roman history ; Reforms in Constantine's and Justinian's legislation under Christian influences ; Succession of property ; Changes through stoical influences ; Reforms in Justinian's code ; The beginnings of modern reforms : III The position of woman under Roman law : Tutelage of woman ; Free marriage ; Reforms under Justinian's code ; Divorce ; Instances in the Roman period ; Reforms brought about by Christianity in Constantine's and Justinian's legislation ; Concubinage ; Improvements under Christianity : IV Personal Purity and marriage : Christ's influence on masculine purity, ".
catalog tableOfContents "III Modern Period : XXIV The position of woman under modern influences : Position of woman since Christianity a composite one ; Christian idea entire equality of man and woman ; English common law inherits Teutonic prejudice of measuring civil rights by physical power ; The wife's legal existence suspended ; Coverture ; Woman under common law ; Equity courts; American legislation ; Reforms in New York ; Position of the mother ; Position of the young girl ; Partnership in property ; Female suffrage ; Woman in the United States ; In Europe ; Future of woman un agnosticism : XXV Divorce : Christian view ; Roman law ; Churchly doctrines ; Views of reformers ; European tendencies ; United States law ; Views of judges ; Laws in New York ; License of divorce ; Change of opinion in the United States ; Effects of free divorce in New York ; Future effects in America ; General happiness of marriage in the United States ; Concubinage; Humane progress : XXVI Degradation of woman : Apparent failure ".
catalog tableOfContents "IX Distribution of property : Christ's teachings tending to more equitable distribution ; Charity ; roman Pauperism ; Roman charities ; Bequests ; Collegia ; Christian charity ; Refuges for orphans ; Stranger's rests ; Hospitals ; The code ; Christ's teachings opposed to pauperism ; Excessive almsgiving and monasticism not an effect of Christianity ; The problem not solved by the Christian religion, but its truths lead towards equal distribution : X Resume of reforms in Roman period : Christianity influenced Ptria potestas and succession of property ; Diminished unnatural vices ; Taught purity ; Put and end to exposure of children ; Founded charities and taught more equitable distribution of wealth ; Checked licentious and cruel sports, and caused humane legislation ; Mitigated and undermined slavery and serfdom ; Elevated woman and marriage ; Need of fresh races for the true work of religion ; afforded by the Keltic and German tribes -- II Middle Ages : XI Position of woman under the German tribes : German Chastity ; Tutelage of woman ; Purchase of wife ; Instances ; Scandinavian customs ; Subjection of woman ; Wife under power of husband in German law ; Position of woman having stamp of barbarism ; descended into English common law ; Free marriage ; Christianity strove to elevate woman and strengthen marriage ; Changed purchase-money into dower ; Lessened tutelage ; The dower ; Change of tutelage ; Religion opposed German prejudice that bodily strength was a condition of civil capacity ; Inferiority of woman continued in common law ; Sir Thomas Smith's statements ; Gains of Christianity : XII Personal feuds and private wars : Feuds universal in barbaric society ; Money-fines in place of revenge stimulated by religion ; feuds checked in holy days and places ; Instance from old Russian code ; Law and penalty substituted for private revenge, under influence of Christian faith :".
catalog tableOfContents "Liberal Government : Progress of ideas in favour of Freer intercourse ; Humanity between nations ; Treatment of inferior races ; Missions ; Popular education ; Churches ; Hope implanted ; Liberal government ; Diminution of pestilences, due only in part to religion : XXXIV Intemperance : Its evils in America and Europe ; Temperance movement ; Total Abstinence ; Influence of religion : XXXV Persecution : No foundation for in Christianity ; Guilt of the church ; Treatment of the Jews ; of Heretics and schismatics ; Liberal views of John Robinson ; of Grotius ; Experience of the United States :".
catalog tableOfContents "THE MADONNA ; Raphael's Sistine Madonna ; The originality of this ideal; is religious power ; New religious life in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; Italian preachers ; Savonarola ; Luther ; Influence on art ; Cimabue ; Giotto ; Encouragement by synods and Popes -- Paining on Glass ; Fraterities of painters; their religious objects ; Francis d'Assisi ; his effect upon fra Angelico ; Character and works ; The Bologna school ; Lippo Dalmasio ; Savonarola; his influence on art ; Lorenzodi Credi ; Fra Bartolommeo ; Ridolfo Ghirlandajo ; Botticelli ; Michael Angelo ; Venetian school; Bellini and others ; The Umbrian school ; Perugino ; Raphael ; POINTED GOTHIC CATHERDRAL ; Origin of Pointed Gothic; its ideal and principles ; The pointed arch; its effect on structure ; The Cologne Catherdral; its religious power ; Gilds of Masons in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; their religious enthusiasm, Chraracter, honesty, and reverence of work; a Laical church; expressed their love of beauty and piety in building of cathedrals; sole conditions, the pointed arch, cruciform ground-plan, and suitability to climate ; But pointed Gothic a development from other styles ; spirit of founders of English cathedrals ; Free Masons or gilds of builders ; Their honesty of work often an unconscious religion; inspired by Christianity ; These two conceptions, the Madonna and the cathedral, side-gifts of the Christian faith.".
catalog tableOfContents "XIII Private war and peace of God ; Arbitration : Forms of declaring private war ; Instances ; The desolation of Germany and France ; The peace of God ; Crusade of peace in France ; Efforts of religious men ; Pledge of peace ; Peace associations ; Councils ; Efforts of Popes ; A messenger of peace; Truce of God ; Peace in Germany ; Leagues of the Rhine ; Application of arbitration ; Forms ; Stimulated by religious sentiment ; Instances ; End of diffidation ; Abolition of private war in Spain, Italy and Iceland : XIV Wager of Battle and ordeal : Judicial duel among the northern tribes ; English practice ; Forms used ; Opposition of the spirit of Christianity ; The councils and Popes ; First forbidden in Iceland after its conversion ; Its abolition, slow ; Existed in England till the nineteenth century ; Ordeal first opposed by Church, then accepted and used ; Spirit of religion opposed it : XV Torture : Implanted by Roman law ; Early church opposed, then used it ; Description of tortures ; The strappado ; Torture in England ; Opposition of church : Subsequent acceptance ; Spirit of religion struggled against it ; Not abolished in parts of Europe till nineteenth century ; Recent abolition in Japan : XVI The strangers' rights : Teutonic Hostility to stranger ; Instances ; Droit d'aubaine in France ; Abolished in 1790 ; Other inequalities later ; The Teutonic legislation shows the influence of Christianity : XVII The wreckers' right, and piracy : All Teutonic codes urge humanity to the shipwrecked on religious grounds ; Instances ; Judgments of the sea ; Councils ; Humane legislation ; Treaties ; Piracy ; A form of private war : XVIII Charlemagne's capitularies : Teaching of morals on religious grounds ; Commands against feud, Oppression, and perjury ; In favour of marriage, and against divorce and unnatural vice ; Injunctions against oppression of the stranger and the poor ; Laws soon swept away, but showing influence of this faith :".
catalog tableOfContents "XIX Anglo-Saxon law : Its spirit manifestly affected by Christianity ; Contrast to other codes ; Laws of old English kings ; King Wihtraed ; Alfred's dooms ; Moral teachings ; Sunday laws ; Humanity to shipwrecked ; False swearing ; King Ethelred's dooms ; Religious laws ; King Canute ; Saxon piety ; Feuds ; Ancient laws ; Alfred's injunctions ; All show the beginning of history of religious forces in England : XX Education in the middle ages : Christianity favourable to intellectual advance ; Early efforts of the church encouraging learning ; Early Christian schools ; councils ; Letter of Charlemagne ; Instruction of Theodolfus ; Copying manuscripts ; Thomas a Kempis ; The Pope's efforts ; Christian truth opens mind of man to truth : XXI Serfdom and slavery in the middle ages : The process by which serfdom arose ; Christian influence on slavery ; Slavery in the middle ages ; Acts of councils favourable to slaves ; Sunday laws ; Religious element in emancipation ; Forms of manumission ; Muratori and Marculfus ; Peasants' revolts under the liberal teaching of Christianity ; Their objects ; Effects on Villainage ; Emancipation gradual ; Freedom of serfs by Bologna ; Slave trade ; Emancipation in Germany ; Abolition in Scandinavia a direct effect of religion ; English slavery causes selling children ; Number of slaves in England ; Religious influence in Emancipation ; Christian brotherhood ; Gradual emancipation ; Forms ; Slave trade forbidden ; Slaves after the Norman conquest ; Religious forces causing emancipation ; Sir Thomas Smith's testimony ; Serfdom disappeared in reign of Charles I :".
catalog tableOfContents "XXII Chivalry : Ideal of chivalry ; Original ; Forms and oaths religious ; Virtues taught corresponded to Christian Froissart ; Humanity ; Courtesy ; Pity ; Purity ; Brotherhood ; Devotion to woman ; The ideal an effect of Christianity on the German temperament ; Its defects and vices ; Uncertain how far chivalry was a reality ; The chivalric character endures under religious influences : XXIII Resume of reforms in the middle ages : (1) Value attached by Christianity to marriage and new position of woman ; (2) Restraint of feud and blood revenge ; (3) Checking private war by peace of God ; (4) Urging arbitration ; (5) Opposing judicial duel and ordeal : (6) Restraining torture ; (7) Commanding humanity to the stranger and shipwrecked ; (8) Power of religion over codes of law ; (9) Its influence on education : (10) Gradual effect on slavery and serfdom ; (11) Founding charities ; (12) Influence on the chivalric ideals ; Reasons of its want of full success -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "XXVII International law -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "XXXVI Humane progress among non-Christian people : Continuity of revelation ; Spiritual ideas of Hindoos ; Cast, and position of women ; Buddhism ; Inspiration of Buddha ; His defects ; The failure of this faith ; Confusionism ; Its merits and wants ; The Arabs ; Mohammedanism ; Its wants and failure ; Position of Mohammedan woman ; Buddhism, Brahmanism, Confucianism not adapted for humane progress ; Climate not alone the cause : XXXVII Objections, resume of reforms begun -- The future of mankind under Christianity : Objections that the Christian ideal is unmanly ; Unfit for the struggle for existence; Not favourable to accumulation of wealth, opposed to progress of Science and to liberal institutions ; objection to slow working of Christianity ; Obstructions ; The drift of evolution in favour of sympathy, unselfishness, and morality ; Christianity works with it, and adds a new force ; Its final tendency a perfect society ; Inference from the facts, and argument for the truth of the Christian religion : Supplementary Chapter : The influence of Christianity upon art in the middle ages : Supposed want of sympathy of the Christian religion with the sense of beauty ; Two highest conceptions in art from the influence of this faith ; namely (1) of the holy Madonna in painting, and (2)the pointed gothic Cathedral in architecture ;".
catalog tableOfContents "and other countries : XXX The duel : Benthan's arguments for it ; Reply ; The struggle of the Church ; Its prevalence in France and England ; Public protests and laws against it ; Experience of the United States ; Its cessation due to Christianised public opinion : XXXI Prison reform and charities : Constantine's legislation ; Howard ; The "Irish" prison system ; American reforms ; Charities ; Societies to protect animals ; Humanization of punishments ; Cruel penalties of the past ; Modern improvements ; Imprisonment for debt ; The Sunday ; Its value to the world : XXXII Co-operation and pauperism : Co-operation ; Communism ; Insurance against poverty ; Religion lessening pauperism ; A socialist's views on Christianity : XXXIII Free Trade -- Humanity -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "of Christianity ; Reforms begun; Masculine purity ; Efforts for children ; Effects of religion ; Hope for the future :".
catalog tableOfContents "on Marriage ; His teachings as to separation ; Celibacy ; Effect of Christianity on position of woman ; unnatural vices ; Plato's principles as to their abolition ; Opposition of early Christians to them ; Victory of Christian principles : V Slavery : The silence of Christ ; explanation ; The slave in the church ; stoics and slavery ; Number of Roman slaves ; Reforms under the stoics ; Christian influence on legislation ; Emancipation as a religious duty ; Humanity towards slaves ; Justinian's reform ; Humanity under Christian influence ; Reforms under other emperors ; Gradual emancipation : VI Slaves in cruel and licentious sports : Bloody sports ; Reforms by Constantine ; Human sacrifices ; Licentious shows ; Feelings of the early Christians ; Reform in Roman laws ; Licentiousness restrained ; Ransoming captives ; Rehabilitation of labour ; Serfdom ; Reforms under religious teaching : VII Exposure of children : Allusions to it in Latin literature ; Mode of exposure ; Stoical ".
catalog tableOfContents "protests ; The early father' denunciations ; Constantine's and Valentinian's legislation ; The councils ; Justinian's code ; Treatment of foundlings by the church ; Orphan asylums ; Charities for Children :".
catalog title "Gesta Christ, or, A history of humane progress under Christianity / by Charles Loring Brace.".
catalog title "Gesta Christi.".
catalog title "History of humane progress under Christianity.".
catalog type "text".