[Footnote 77: The remaining history of images, from Irene to
Theodora, is collected, for the Catholics, by Baronius and
Pagi, (A.D. 780-840.) Natalis Alexander, (Hist. N. T.
seculum viii. Panoplia adversus Haereticos p. 118- 178,) and
Dupin, (Bibliot. Eccles. tom. vi. p. 136-154;) for the
Protestants, by Spanheim, (Hist. Imag. p. 305-639.) Basnage,
(Hist. de l'Eglise, tom. i. p. 556-572, tom. ii. p.
1362-1385,) and Mosheim, (Institut. Hist. Eccles. secul.
viii. et ix.) The Protestants, except Mosheim, are soured
with controversy; but the Catholics, except Dupin, are
inflamed by the fury and superstition of the monks; and even
Le Beau, (Hist. du Bas Empire,) a gentleman and a scholar,
is infected by the odious contagion.]