X CONTENTS CHAPTER IV THE ANTIQUE CULTURE I. The Transmission of Lettebs PAOS Latin and Greek in the West 44 The preservation of classic works 45 Mediaeval education 47 Summaries of the liberal arts : Martianus Capella . . 49 Summaries of philosophy : Boethius 51 II. Transmission of the Roman Law Imperial codes 56 Barbarian codes of Roman law 59 Roman law and the Church ; canon law . . . .61 Roman law in the early Middle Ages .... 64 The Bologna school and the new knowledge of the Roman law in France, England, and Germany ... 66 CHAPTER V PAGAN ELEMENTS CHRISTIANIZED IN TRANSMISSION I. Ethics Pagan and Christian ethics 71 Ambrose's De Officiis Ministrorum 74 Augustine 77 II. Stnesius of Cyrene 78 in. The Celestial and Ecclesiastical Hierarchies of the Counterfeit Diontsius the Areopagitb 82 IV. Mysteries, Symbolism, Allegory •' Mysteries," symbolism, and allegorical interpretation . 90 Pagan and Christian mysteries 93
