Sentence examples for features of the Roman from inspiring English sources

It was not until the 11th century that a "revolution from above," the "Gregorian Reform" started by Pope Gregory VII, left us with the three enduring features of the Roman system: a centralist-absolutist papacy, compulsory clericalism and the obligation of celibacy for priests and other secular clergy.

However, no structural features of the Roman period were detected.

The most important feature of the Roman theatre as distinct from the Greek theatre was the raised stage.

Cryptoporticus, a covered gallery that was a characteristic feature of the ancient Roman palazzo.

Caragiale provides some of his character's one-liner jokes, which include references to garlic as "Serbian vanilla", and to Romanian leu banknotes as "Trajan's pictures" (alluding to their design, which, at the time, featured a portrait of the Roman Emperor).

In general, they took over the main features of late Roman coinage.

Diocletian's reforms adumbrated the principal features of late Roman society: a society defined in all parts that could be useful to the state by laws fixing status and, through status, responsibility.

Many secondary streets and some of the most prominent features of the Old City owe their positions to the Roman city planners of the 2nd and 3rd centuries ce.

The campaigns of conquest are the most widely known feature of Wales during the Roman era, because of the spirited, but ultimately unsuccessful, defence of their homelands by two native tribes: the Silures and the Ordovices.

A methodology was developed to reconstruct the Roman topography and environmental features of the Sarno River plain, Italy, before the AD 79 eruption of the Somma Vesuvius volcanic complex.

Huntington's thesis did not originate with him, Cannadine is quick to point out, but can be traced back to Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," which featured clashes between pagan and Christian as well as Roman and barbarian civilizations.