A History of the Church From the Earliest Ages to the Reformation volume 1
A History of the Church From the Earliest Ages to the Reformation volume 1
George Waddington
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287 should have been that which was first exposed to their occu- pation. But the vicinity of Spain to their latest conquests? and the factious dissensions of its nobility, gave them an early opportunity to attempt the subjugation of that country. Their success was almost unusually rapid. In 711 they overthrew the Gothic monarchy by the victory of Xeres ; and the two fol- lowing years were sufficient to secure their dominion over the greatest part of the Peninsula. The waters of this torrent wer...e destined to proceed still a little farther. Ten years after the battle of Xeres, the Sara- cens crossed the Pyrenees, and overran with little opposition the south-western provinces of France — " the vineyards of Gascony and the city of Bourdeaux were possessed by the Sovereign of Damascus and Samarcand ; and the south of France, from the mouth of the Garonne to that of the Rhone, assumed the man- ners and religion of Arabia. " Still dissatisfied with those ample limits, or impatient of any limit, these children of the desert again marched forward into the centre of the kingdom.
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