Empires of Faith Quotes

“by the end of the seventh century, the Anglisc were on their way to becoming the first ‘nation’ of Europe”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“which together constituted a powerbase far surpassing that of any previous Merovingian magnate.”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“As a result, he was able to forge under his own control a dense network of land, clients, and pro-Pippin monastic foundations,”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“As a result, he was able to forge under his own control a dense network of land,”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“as well as continuing to hold the parallel office in Austrasia.”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“no doubt, powerful political connections and affinities) and succeeded him as mayor of the palace in Neustria,”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“whereupon Pippin proceeded to marry Berchar’s widow (thus enabling him to co-opt her,”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“which was even attended by a bishop and abbot from the fledgling Christian kingdom of Kent.”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“which was even attended by a bishop and abbot from the fledgling Christian kingdom of”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“convening of a Church Council that reiterated the key provisions of the Edict,”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“asserted his authority over Francia as a whole: a statement of power reinforced by his contemporaneous”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“epitomised by the Edict of Paris that Clothar II issued in 614”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“The result was an emphasis on mutually profitable governance by consent,”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“in that sense they were quintessentially unlike any of the noblemen who gathered around them at court.”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“Merovingians were born royal,”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“bloodline royal and true.”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“Merovingians had successfully established themselves as a stirps regia—”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“to having a king of Clovis’ bloodline.”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“was a very un-Visigothic commitment to Merovingian dynastic rule, that is,”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“Crucially, across the core kingdoms, what united the emergent Frankish aristocracy”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“Spain was being devastated by the aforesaid forces and was greatly afflicted not only by the enemy but also by domestic strife,”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“in the Armenian History, with their emphasis on bouts of intense violence followed by rounds of negotiation:”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“the Arab tactics described chime with those recorded in the contemporary Syriac accounts for Palestine”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“A second Arab-Berber army now advanced on Toledo.”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“Thus Roderic wretchedly lost not only his rule but his homeland, his rivals also being slain”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“and he was killed.”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“which had come with him fraudulently and in rivalry out of ambition for the kingship, fled,”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“Roderic headed for the Transductine mountains to fight them and in that battle the entire army of Goths,”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“Mustering his forces, he [Roderic] directed armies against the Arabs and Moors”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

“where Arab armies with their Berber allies had crossed the straits from north Africa and were now active.”
― Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700