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![The Secrets of Black Arts!: A Key Note to Witchcraft, Devination [Sic], Omens, Forwarnings, Apparitions, Sorcery, Dæmonology, Dreams, Predictions, Visions, and the Devil's Legacy to Earth Mortals, Compacts with the Devil! with the Most Authentic History of Salem Witchcraft](https://d3b2n8gj62qnwr.cloudfront.net/COVERS/gutenberg_covers75k/ebook-71924.png)
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![The Cambrian Tourist, or, Post-Chaise Companion through Wales [1834]](https://d3b2n8gj62qnwr.cloudfront.net/COVERS/gutenberg_covers75k/ebook-64132.png)
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![The Cambrian Tourist, or, Post-Chaise Companion through Wales [1828]](https://d3b2n8gj62qnwr.cloudfront.net/COVERS/gutenberg_covers75k/ebook-64127.png)
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![The Cambrian Directory [1800]; Or, Cursory Sketches of the Welsh Territories.with a Chart, Comprehending at One View, the Advisable Route, Best Inns, Distances, and Objects Most Worthy of Attention.](https://d3b2n8gj62qnwr.cloudfront.net/COVERS/gutenberg_covers75k/ebook-58153.png)
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''Glimpses of the dark ages : or, Sketches of the social condition of Europe,….'' is a historical account written in the mid-19th century. It surveys European society from the fall of Rome to the dawn of medieval civilization, emphasizing social structures, beliefs, morals, and daily life rather than dynastic politics or battles. Early chapters trace the collapse of Rome, the ascendancy and influence of the Church, the rise of monasticism and feudalism, and the growth of towns, drawing on familiar historians to present an accessible social history. The opening of this work sets out its scope—social life from the fifth to the twelfth century—and then vividly recounts Alaric’s sack of Rome, noting both devastation and the relative protection afforded to Christians and their churches. From that event the author pivots to diagnose Rome’s moral and civic decay: imperial despotism, extravagant nobles, idle plebeians, pervasive slavery, compromised Christianity, and a decline in arts and letters, framed as divine retribution. He sketches the barbarians (especially the Goths), subsequent shocks from Attila and Odoacer to Charlemagne, and argues that the invasions demolished corrupt ancient forms while supplying new elements for medieval society. The Church then takes center stage: bishops managing civic life and shaping law (notably in Visigothic Spain), the growth of papal supremacy, and the papacy’s mixed social legacy—intellectual control, legal encroachments, interdicts, but occasional mediation and cultural exchange. A section on superstition shows accommodation to pagan customs (Gregory the Great’s policy), imported myths (e.g., St. Nicholas), ordeals (including the corsned), riotous festivals (Feast of Fools and Asses), and credulous or fraudulent miracle tales. On morals, the narrative highlights militarized clergy, simony, clerical immorality, and formalism among the laity, yet also notes charitable preaching, almsgiving, manumission of slaves, sanctuary rights, and the Truce of God as genuine social restraints. It closes this opening portion by beginning a survey of learning and art, crediting the Church with preserving letters during the nadir of the seventh century and tracing the uneven, migratory revival of learning across Ireland, England, France, Germany, and Italy.
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