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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Magdeburg. This work consisted of 13 folio vols., each of which embraced a century. (Kccles. i lint., integram eccl. iileam complectens, con- gata per aliquot ttudiotoi et pioi viras in urbe Uagdb. Bas., 1559-1574.) They rest throughout on careful studies of original authorities, produce many documents that were previously unknown, and, with an unsparingly bitter polemic against the Romish doctrinal degeneration, address themselves with special diligence to the historical development of dogma. In answer to them the Romish Oratorian, Csesar Barouius, produced his Annale ecclesiastici, in 12 vols, folio, reaching down to A.d. 1198 (Borne, 1588-1607). This work moves entirely along Eoman Catholic lines and is quite prejudiced and partial, and seeks in a thoroughly uncritical way, by every species of ingenuity, to justify Bomish positions; yet, as communicating many hitherto unknown, and to others inaccessible documents, it must be regarded as an important production. It secured for its author the cardinal's hat, and had wellnigh raised him to the chair of St. Peter. In the interests of a scholarly and truth-loving research, it was keenly criticised by the Franciscan Anthony Pagi (Crtica hist-chronol. 4 vole. Antw., 1705), carried down in the 17th century from Aj. 1198-1565, in 9 vols, by Oderic. Baynaldi, in the 18th century from A.d. 1566-1571, in 3 vols, by de Laderchi, and in the 19th century down to A.d. 1585 in 3 vols, by August Theiner. A new edition was published by Mansi (43 vols. 1738 ff.), with Bayualdi's continuation and Pagi's criticism.?During the 17th century the French Catholic scholars bore the palm as writers of Church history. The course was opened in general church history by the Dominican Natalie Alexander, a learned man, but writing a stiff scholastic style (Se...