Sights and thoughts in foreign churches and among foreign peoples

Sights and thoughts in foreign churches and among foreign peoples

Author: Faber, Frederick William, 1814-1863

Year: 1842

CONTENTS. BOOK I. PARIS AND AVIGNON. Travelling in the Middle Ages 1 Amiens 1 Paris 7 Thoughts on interesting Cemeteries 20 Versailles 23 Chartres 36 Orleans 38 Avignon 43 The Schism of Avignon 47 Reflections on the Pontificate of Boniface VIII 61 Vaucluse 80 The Loves of Petrarch and Laura 86 Provencal Scenery a type of the modern temper 101 The antiquities of Nismes 106 First sight of the Mediterranean 112 Thoughts on the Catholic movement in France 113 What it is to travel 121 Dialogue I. — Dark notions of Clerical Celibacy, by the Man of the Middle Ages 123 BOOK II. CISALPINE GAUL. Mechanical powers in the World, and movements in the Church 136 Genoa 139 The Monk and the Missionary 140 The honor of the Mother of God 147 Danger of travelling in Roman Catholic countries 154 Henry VIII. Charles V. and Francis I 160 The Certosa of Chiravalle 162 Dialogue II. — The wrath of Kings; Rome in the Holy Week; Character of the English Church; The two tendencies; The Donatist temper of England 166 Milan 182 The Legend of Saints Gervasius and Protasius 185 The Death of St. Ambrose 189 The fortunes of the Milanese Church 191 Transmutation of the Man of the Middle Ages 198 Dialogue III. — The