Front Cover; History and Literature of Christianity; Copyright Page; Foreword by his Eminence Cardinal Gasquet; Author's Preface; Biographical Note; Table of Contents; Explanation of the Signs; Introduction. Latin Christian Literature and the Old Learning; Book I: The Sources of Origin; Chapter I. The First Latin Versions of the Bible; Chapter II. The First Christian Writers in the Latin Tongue: Tertullian; Book II: The IIIrd Century Down to the Peace of the Church, A.D. 313; Chapter I. The Octavius of Minucius Felix; Chapter II. St Cyprian and his Times; Chapter III. Novatian-Commodian
Book V: On the Threshold of the Middle AgesChapter I. Works in Verse; Chapter II. Works in Prose: The Handing on of the Legacy of Antiquity; Index
Chapter IV. The Eve of the Peace of the Church: Arnobius and LactantiusBook III: The Golden Age of Latin Christian Literature; Chapter I. The Morrow of the Victory; Chapter II. St Ambrose, Bishop and Diplomat; Chapter III. The Theologians of the Second Order; Chapter IV. Christian Poetry in the IVth Century; Chapter V. St Jerome and his Times; Book IV: The Break up of the Empire; Chapter I. St Augustine and Augustinianism; Chapter II. The Church and the Barbarians-Orosius-Salvianus-Leo the Great-Victor of Vita; Chapter III. Christian Latin Poetry in the Vth Century
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