...CHAPTER VIII THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF SAXON ENGLAND WHEN the Angles and Saxons first invaded Britain at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century they were rude barbarians. As the centuries rolled by, as wars decreased in ferocity and frequency,...

...corpus tua viscera praestent 133 He was one of the most prominent personages in the Roman Empire at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century, because of his high birth (Bordeaux, about 353), the office of consul with which he was at one time...

...were about letters, the stern march of economic and political events inevitably made for a decline. At the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century the Salian Franks, who were destined to conquer Gaul, were established in Toxandria in the north ;...

...were predominant in South India and the various Tamil kingdoms were more or less subject to them. At the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century AD, their rule remained obscure : perhaps it was not widely known. The question now is when they assumed...

...HINDU, AND CHINESE MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY HYPATIA 'Yjroria. Born in Alexandria, flourished there at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century, murdered by a Christian mob in 415. Mathematician, astronomer, Neo-platonic philosopher. Daughter of...

...the age of 86 years. See HBO. L. 53 to 56. The Hinayanists did not remain behind. They produced, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century, voluminous adaptations of the Collections called agama, and some monachical Summaries. See HBO. L....

...sarcomatous degeneration. Myoma and uterine carcinoma occur especially in nulliparae and in virgins at about the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth decades. It may be suspected if bleeding is irregular, if there exists bloody or discolored discharge...

...was set the church by eternal Rome, this episcopal capital which had been Christianised outwardly at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. Pagan mothers there were in the habit of taking their sick children to the sanctuary of Romulus and...

...subsequently some revival of the slave trade, in spite of Rome's military decadence. The great invasions at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century led to a further revival. And it was not only the invaders who made money by slave dealing: anyone...

...him. In this context the case of Stilicho, the Vandal general who held supreme power in the west at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century, can be considered paradigmatic. An inscription mentions how he managed to arrive ad columen gloriae...