History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages (Volume 1)

Volume 1 only. Bound in red cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Institutional stamps on front end pages. Owner's name on title page. xx, 365 p., folded map, ill., 26 cm. "Towards the end of the fourth century, thirty years after the death of Julian the Apostate, the final struggle between Paganism and Christianity in Rome was fought out. The sanguinary defeat inflicted upon the usurper Eugenius in 394 by Theodosius the Great, together with the humiliating collapse of recently revived Pagan worship in Rome, set seal to the definitive triumph of Christianity as the State religion of the Western Empire.".