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324 Introduction to the Sources
Salvianus.
De gubernatione
Dei.
Eginhard.
Inscriptions
and buildings.
God in goodness and protecting power to
the countless
deities of pagan Rome. A still later author is Salvianus,
presbyter of Marseilles, who lived nearly through the
fifth century—through the confusion and violence of the
barbarian invasions.
In his Providence of God he explains
the misfortunes of the times as divine punishments of the
wealthy, governing class for their immorality, greed, and
oppression. His fiery zeal leads him to exaggerate the
miseries and the vices of his age.
These defenders of the
faith are merely representative of a host of- Christian
Fathers.
Quite distinct is
the last author of this volume, Eginhard,
secretary and private chaplain of Charlemagne.
His Life of the Emperor Karl the Great, a simple trustworthy
Latin narrative, is the only piece of historical
writing of the period in which it falls.
Inscriptions, too, form an exceedingly valuable source.
Almost wholly wanting in the regal period and early
republic, they grow abundant toward the end of the republican
period; and for the administration of the empire
they furnish the most precious information. For a full
and accurate appreciation of Roman history, the public
works should also be studied.
AUTHORS AND DOCUMENTS
Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by C. D. Yonge.
Macmillan.
Appian, Roman History, translated by White. 2 vols. Macmillan.
Augustan History, by Capitolinus, Spartianus, etc.
Selections translated
by the editors.
Augustine, St., Confessions, translated by W. Montgomery. Cambridge:
University Press.
City of God, translated by J. Healey.
3 vols. London: Dent.
Augustus, Deeds ("Monumentum Ancyranum"), translated by
Fairley, in "Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources
of European History," V.
University of Pennsylvania.