Rome: pagan and papal / by Mourant Brock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brock, Mourant, 1802-1883.

Contributor:

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Controversial literature--Protestant authors.

Catholic Church.

Paganism.

Genre:

Gold tooled bindings (Binding) -- 1883.

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1883.

Physical Description:

xi, 270 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1883.

Contents:

The two cities

The relation of paganism to the Roman church

The early church

The compromising spirit of the early church

Further evidence to the compromising spirit of the early church

The Dark Ages

A device of man for his own salvation

Celibates and solitaries

Monks and monasteries

The superstition and immorality of mediævalism

Charms as used in the pagan world

Charms in the church of Rome

The consecration of holy fire and holy water

The feast of the purification, or Candlemas

The images of the gods

The image of St. Peter at Rome

The adoration of images by kissing

The clothing of images

The mother and child

Votive offerings

The nimbus

Marks of the gods

Holy places

Modern pilgrims

Bleeding knees

St. George and the dragon

Pope Joan

The election of a pope

Ecclesiastical painting: its sensuousness and pagan character

The bronze gates of St. Peter's

The shrine of St. Anthony of Padua

The burlesque side of superstition

Orvieto and transubstantiation

The Cathedral of Orvieto

Bolsena

Brigandage

The persecuting spirit of Rome

Modern Jesuitism

Conclusion.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in blue cloth with border in red and image of the initials S.P.Q.R. (Senātus Populusque Rōmānus), She-wolf, Romulus, Remus, axes, Pope's hat, keys and sword in gold on front cover. Border in red and text in gold on spine.

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.

Athenaeum copy: Inscribed on title page: "Rec'd Jan 25 1884."

OCLC:

6592542