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Sidenote: _Ibid._, cx.x.xvii. pp. 239-310.

(_u_.) _John of Cirita_, Abbot of Tharauca, in Spain.

Sidenote: _Ibid._, clx.x.xviii. pp. 1661-1671.

(_v_.) _Life of St Rudesindus._ Sidenote: Florez, xviii. 379 ff.

(_w._) _Pa.s.sio St Nicholai Alsamae_ regis filii et sociorum martyrum qui pa.s.si sunt apud Ledesmam. A purely fabulous account.

Sidenote: Florez, xiv., 392.

(_x._) _Vita et pa.s.s...o...b.. Virginis Argenteae_ et comitum eius qui pa.s.si sunt Cordobae, Id. Maii.

Sidenote: Florez.

(_y._) _Life of Beatus_, by an anonymous author. Not very trustworthy,--_e.g._, death of Elipandus placed in 798 (sec. 8): mythical council mentioned (sec. 7).

Sidenote: Migne, xcvi. 890-894

And the following _Charters_, etc.:--

Of Alfonso III. to the Church of Auria, 826.

Sidenote: Florez, xvii. 244.

Of the same to the Church of Mindumnetum, 867.

Sidenote: _Ibid._, xviii. 312.

Of Bermudo II. (982-999) to the Church of Compostella.

Sidenote: _Ibid._, xvii. 397.

a.s.sembly of Bishops pro restauratione monasterii St Mariae de Logio a parentibus Rudesindi instaurati, 927.

Sidenote: _Ibid._, xvii. 326

II. SECONDARY AUTHORITIES:--

(1.) "Histoire generale d'Espagne" par _Loys de Mayerne Turguet_. Book xvi. (1608.) Sidenote: Schott.

(2.) _John de Mariana_.[1] "History of Spain." Books vi.-xi., translated from the Spanish by John Stevens. (1699.)

[1] Dr Dunham says of his work: "It is well that it is sunk in oblivion. No one reads it in Spain."

(3.) _Fleury_, "History of the Church," translated from the French.

(1727.) Vol. v. Books xli. ff.

(4.) _Morales_. "Remarks on the State of the Christian Religion under the Arabs at Cordova."

Sidenote: Migne, cxv. p. 917.

(5.) _Froben_. "Dissertatio Historica de haeresi Elipandi et Felicis."

Sidenote: _Ibid._, 305-336.

(6.) _Enhueber's_ "Dissertation against Walchius' view of Adoptionism."

Sidenote: _Ibid._, 338-438.

(7.) _Dunham_. "History of Spain and Portugal" (Lardner), 1832. Buckle, "Civilization in England," p. 430, says of this history, very extravagantly, that it is "perhaps the best history in the English language of a foreign modern country." It certainly has the merit--no small one in so confused a period--of being clear and succinct; but he has a bias against the Moors.

(8.) _W.H. Prescott_. "Ferdinand and Isabella." An excellent work. The parts chiefly bearing on the present subject are the Introduction and chapter viii. The great drawback to the work is the want of direct citations of authorities used.

(9.) _Hardwicke's_ "History of the Christian Church in the Middle Ages,"

1853.

(10.) The Abbe _Rohrbacher_. "Histoire Universelle de l'Eglise Catholique." Paris, 1844. Vols. xi., xii., xiii.

(11.) _Neander_. "General History of the Christian Religion and Church"

(Bohn's Translation). Vol. v. pp. 218-233, 461-475; vol. vi. 119-132.

(12.) "Histoire d'Afrique et de l'Espagne sous la domination des Arabes," par _M. Cardonne_. 3 vols., 1765. A history based chiefly on Arab writers, but not very trustworthy, as Conde (Pref., p. 14) and Murphy (notes, pa.s.sim) have shown.

(13.) _Dozy_. "Histoire des Mussulmans d'Espagne jusqu' a la conquete de l'Andalousie par les Almoravides, 711-1110." 4 vols., Leyden, 1861. An invaluable history of the time, being both lucid and thorough.

(14.) _E.A. Freeman_. "History and Conquests of the Saracens." Six lectures (ed. 1870). Spanish affairs are treated rather as a [Greek: parergon] in Lecture v. An unprejudiced and accurate writer, with a strong bias, however, against chivalry (see Lecture v., p. 182).

(15.) _Ockley_. "History of the Saracen Empire" (Reprint in the Chandos Cla.s.sics).

(16.) _Gibbon_. The parts relating to the Saracens are conveniently reprinted in the "Chandos Cla.s.sics."

(17.) _Robertson's_ "History of the Christian Church." Vol. iii.

(18.) _Milman's_ "Latin Christianity." Bk. ix.

(19.) _Stanley_. "Lectures on the Eastern Church." Lect.

viii.

(20.) _Hallam's_ "Middle Ages." Vol. iii. (Chivalry).

(21.) _Geddes_. Expulsion of the Moriscoes, in his Miscellaneous Tracts.

1730. Also Account of MSS. and Relics found at Granada in 1588; and View of Court of Inquisition in Portugal.

(22.) _Lecky's_ "Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe."

2 vols.

(23.) _Buckle_. "History of Civilisation in England," chap. viii.

"Spanish Intellect from Fifth to Nineteenth Centuries." Vol. ii. pp.

425-597.

(24.) _Carlyle_. "Hero Worship. The Hero as Prophet."

(25.) _C.M. Yonge_. "Christians and Moors in Spain." "Golden Treasury"

Series. 1878. Obscure in method, and often inaccurate in facts. To give one instance only out of many--The auth.o.r.ess says (p. 29), that Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet rebelled and died in battle. It is well known (Gibbon, vi. 274, 276) that he did neither.

(26.) _R. Bosworth Smith._ "Mohammed and Mohammedanism." 1874. A brilliant, but essentially unfair book, Christianity being extolled in theory, but sneered at in practice. We are too forcibly reminded of "Brutus is an honourable man." His own accusation of others falls upon himself. P. 61, he says--"Most other writers have approached the subject only to prove a thesis. Mohammed was to be either a hero or an impostor: they have held a brief for the prosecution or the defence."

(27.) _S. Lane-Poole._ "The Moors in Spain." "Story of the Nations"