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11 Dozy (2), tome ii. p. 210. ↑

12 Bishop Egila, who was sent to Southern Spain by Pope Hadrian I, towards the end of the eighth century, on a mission to counteract the growing influence of Muslim thought, denounces the Spanish priests who lived in concubinage with married women. (Helfferich, p. 83.) ↑

13 Alvari Cordubensis, Epist. xix. “Ob meritum æternæ retributionis devovi me sedulum in lege Domini consistere.” (Migne: Patr. Lat., tom. cxxi. p. 512.) ↑

14 Helfferich, pp. 79–80. ↑

15 “Bedenkt man nun, wie wichtig gerade die alttestamentliche Idee des Prophetenthums in der Christologie des germanischen Arianismus nachklang und auch nach der Annahme des katholischen Dogmas in dem religiösen Bewusstsein der Westgothen haften blieb, so wird man es sehr erklärlich finden, dass unmittelbar nach dem Einfall der Araber die verwandten Vorstellungen des Mohammedanismus unter den geknechteten Christen auftauchten.” (Helfferich, p. 82.) ↑

16 Lucæ Diaconi Tudensis Chronicon Mundi. (Andreas Schottus: Hispaniæ Illustratæ, tom. iv. p. 53.) (Francofurti, 1603–8.) ↑

17 Dozy (2), tome ii. p. 41. Whishaw, p. 17. ↑

18 Dozy (2), tome ii. p. 39. ↑

19 Baudissin, pp. 11–13, 196. ↑

20 Eulogius: Mem. Sanct., lib. i. § 30, “inter ipsos sine molestia fidei degimus” (p. 761). Id., ib., lib. i. § 18, “Quos nulla præsidialis violentia fidem suam negare compulit, nec a cultu sanctæ piæque religionis amovit” (p. 751). John of Gorz (who visited Spain about the middle of the tenth century) § 124, “(Christiani), qui in regno eius libere divinis suisque rebus utebantur.”

A Spanish bishop thus described the condition of the Christians to John of Gorz. “Peccatis ad hæc devoluti sumus, ut paganorum subiaceamus ditioni. Resistere potestati verbo prohibemur apostoli. Tantum hoc unum relictum est solatii, quod in tantæ calamitatis malo legibus nos propriis uti non prohibent; qui quos diligentes Christianitatis viderint observatores, colunt et amplectuntur, simul ipsorum convictu delectantur. Pro tempore igitur hoc videmur tenere consilii, ut quia religionis nulla infertur iactura, cetera eis obsequamur, iussisque eorum in quantum fidem non impediunt obtemperemus” § 122 (p. 302). ↑

21 Baudissin, pp. 16–17. ↑

22 Eulogius, ob. 859 (Mem. Sanct. lib. iii. c. 3) speaks of churches recently erected (ecclesias nuper structas). The chronicle falsely ascribed to Luitprand records the erection of a church at Cordova in 895 (p. 1113). ↑

23 Eulogius: Mem. Sanct., lib. iii. c. 11 (p. 812). ↑

24 Baudissin, p. 16. ↑

25 Id. p. 21, and John of Gorz, § 128 (p. 306). ↑

26 Whishaw, pp. 272, 301. ↑

27 Dozy (2), tome ii. p. 42. ↑

28 Baudissin, pp. 96–7. ↑

29 See the letter of Pope Hadrian I to the Spanish bishops: “Porro diversa capitula quæ ex illis audivimus partibus, id est, quod multi dicentes se catholicos esse, communem vitam gerentes cum Iudæis et non baptizatis paganis, tam in escis quamque in potu et in diversis erroribus nihil pollui se inquiunt: et illud quod inhibitum est, ut nulli liceat iugum ducere cum infidelibus, ipsi enim filias suas cum alio benedicent, et sic populo gentili tradentur.” (Migne: Patr. Lat., tome xcviii. p. 385.) ↑

30 Isidori Pacensis Chronicon, § 42 (p. 1266). ↑

31 Alvar: Indic. Lum., § 35 (p. 53). John of Gorz, § 123 (p. 303). ↑

32 Letter of Hadrian I, p. 385. John of Gorz, § 123 (p. 303). ↑

33 Some Arabic verses of a Christian poet of the eleventh century are still extant, which exhibit considerable skill in handling the language and metre. (Von Schack, II. 95.) ↑

34 Abbot Samson gives us specimens of the bad Latin written by some of the ecclesiastics of his time, e.g. “Cum contempti essemus simplicitas christiana,” but his correction is hardly much better, “contenti essemus simplicitati christianæ” (pp. 404, 406). ↑

35 Alvar: Indic. Lum., § 35 (pp. 554–6). ↑

36 Von Schack, vol. ii. p. 96. ↑

37 Orderic Vitalis, p. 928. ↑

38 Alvar: Ind. Lum., § 29. “Compositionem verborum, et preces omnium eius membrorum quotidie pro eo eleganti facundia, et venusto confectas eloquio, nos hodie per eorum volumina et oculis legimus et plerumque miramur.” (Migne: Patr. Lat., tome cxxi. p. 546.) ↑

39 Enhueber, § 26, p. 353. ↑

40 Helfferich, p. 88. ↑

41 “Postmodum transgressus legem Dei, fugiens ad paganos consentaneos, periuratus effectus est.” Frobenii dissertatio de hæresi Elipandi et Felicis, § xxiv. (Migne: Patr. Lat., tome ci. p. 313.) ↑

42 Pseudo-Luitprandi Chronicon, § 341 (p. 1115). “Basilius Toletanum concilium contrahit; quo providetur, ne Christiani detrimentum acciperent convictu Saracenorum.” ↑

43 There is little record of such, but they seem referred to in the following sentences of Eulogius (Liber Apologeticus Martyrum, § 20), on Muḥammad: “Cuius quidem erroris insaniam, prædicationis deliramenta, et impiæ novitatis præcepta quisquis catholicorum cognoscere cupit, evidentius ab eiusdem sectæ cultoribus perscrutando advertet. Quoniam sacrum se quidpiam tenere et credere autumantes, non modo privatis, sed apertis vocibus vatis sui dogmata prædicant.” (Migne: Patr. Lat., tome cxv. p. 862.) ↑

44 Dozy (2), tome ii. p. 53. ↑

45 Lea, The Moriscos, pp. 17, 18. ↑

46 Samson, p. 379. ↑

47 Eulogius: Mem. Sanct. Pref., § 2. (Migne, tom. cxv. p. 737.) ↑

48 Id. c. xiii. (p. 794.) ↑

49 The number of the martyrs is said not to have exceeded forty. (W. H. Prescott: History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, vol. i. p. 342, n.) (London, 1846.) ↑