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the long period which li '^aii with the lust tumults of the harhariun invasion, 

 and ended with tlu- Hen lisviuce in 'the sixteenth century. Its history is for 

 the most part difficult to Mudy, and always very dry; yet it has been made 

 the subject in our day of many works, the best of which, despite its 

 numerous defects, is that of M. Huureau, from which we shall borrow largely, 

 availing ourselves also of the valuable researches of M. Charles Jourdain, the 



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Fig. 36. The Wheel of Fortune. Miniature from the " Consolation of Boethius," Translation of 

 Jean de Moung, Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century. Library of II. Ambroise Firmin-Pidot. 



editor of Abelard's works, and the historian of the philosophy of St. Thomas 

 Aquinas. 



Amongst the Christian writers who preserved a few remnants of ancient 

 learning amidst the ruins of the Roman empire must be mentioned, first of 

 all, Martianus Capella, philosopher and poet of the fifth century, the author of 

 the "Satyricon," a sort of encyi-lop:edia in prose and in verse, which was long 



