in the history of Semi-Pelagianism and the foundation of western monachism.
After the ravages of successive invaders, Marseilles was repeopled in the 10th century under the protection of its viscounts. The town gradually bought up their rights, and at the beginning of the 13th century was formed into a republic, governed by a podestat, who was appointed for life, and exercised his office in conjunction with 3 notables, and a municipal council, composed of 80 citizens, 3 clerics, and 6 principal tradesmen. During the rest of the middle ages, however, the higher town was governed by the bishop, and had its harbour at the creek of La Joliette which at that period ran inland to the north of the old town. The southern suburb was governed by the abbot of St Victor, and owned the Port des Catalans. Situated between the two, the lower town, the republic, retained the old harbour, and was the most powerful of the three divisions. The period of the crusades brought prosperity to Marseilles, though throughout the middle ages it suffered from the competition of Pisa, Genoa and Venice. In 1245 and 1256 Charles of Anjou, count of Provence, whose predecessors had left the citizens a large measure of independence, established his authority above that of the republic. In 1423 Alphonso V. of Aragon sacked the town. King René, who had made it his winter residence, however, caused trade, arts and manufactures again to flourish. On the embodiment of Provence in the kingdom of France in 1481, Marseilles preserved a separate administration directed by royal officials. Under Francis I. the disaffected constable Charles de Bourbon vainly besieged the town with the imperial forces in 1524. During the wars of religion, Marseilles took part against the Protestants, and long refused to acknowledge Henry IV. The loss of the ancient liberties of the town brought new disturbances under the Fronde, which Louis XIV. came in person to suppress. He entered the town by a breach in the walls and afterwards had Fort St Nicolas constructed. Marseilles repeatedly suffered from the plague, notably from May 1720 to May 1721.
During the Revolution the people rose against the aristocracy, who up to that time had governed the commune. In the Terror they rebelled against the Convention, but were promptly subdued by General Carteaux. The wars of the empire, by dealing a blow to their maritime commerce, excited the hatred of the inhabitants against Napoleon, and they hailed the return of the Bourbons and the defeat of Waterloo. The news of the latter provoked a bloody reaction in the town against those suspected of imperialism. The prosperity of the city received a considerable impulse from the conquest of Algeria and from the opening of the Suez Canal.
See P. Castanier, Histoire de la Provence dans l’antiquité, vol. ii. (Paris, 1896); E. Caman, Marseille au XX me siècle (Paris, 1905); P. Joanne, Marseille et ses environs.
MARSH, ADAM (Adam de Marisco) (d. c. 1258), English
Franciscan, scholar and theologian, was born about 1200 in the
diocese of Bath, and educated at Oxford under the famous
Grosseteste. Before 1226 Adam received the benefice of Wearmouth
from his uncle, Richard Marsh, bishop of Durham; but
between that year and 1230 he entered the Franciscan order.
About 1238 he became the lecturer of the Franciscan house at
Oxford, and within a few years was regarded by the English
province of that order as an intellectual and spiritual leader.
Roger Bacon, his pupil, speaks highly of his attainments in
theology and mathematics. His fame, however, rests upon the
influence which he exercised over the statesmen of his day.
Consulted as a friend by Grosseteste, as a spiritual director by
Simon de Montfort, the countess of Leicester and the queen,
as an expert lawyer and theologian by the primate, Boniface
of Savoy, he did much to guide the policy both of the opposition
and of the court party in all matters affecting the interests of
the Church. He shrank from office, and never became provincial
minister of the English Franciscans, though constantly charged
with responsible commissions. Henry III. and Archbishop
Boniface unsuccessfully endeavoured to secure for him the see of
Ely in 1256. In 1257 Adam’s health was failing, and he appears
to have died in the following year. To judge from his correspondence
he took no interest in secular politics. He sympathized
with Montfort as with a friend of the Church and an unjustly
treated man; but on the eve of the baronial revolution he was
on friendly terms with the king. Faithful to the traditions of his
order, he made it his ambition to be a mediator. He rebuked
both parties in the state for their shortcomings, but he did not
break with either.
See his correspondence, with J. S. Brewer’s introduction, in Monumenta franciscana, vol. i. (Rolls ser., 1858); the biographical notice in A. G. Little’s Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), where all the references are collected. On Marsh’s relations with Grosseteste, see Roberti Grosseteste epistolae, ed. H. R. Luard (Rolls ed., 1861), and F. S. Stevenson, Robert Grosseteste (London, 1809). (H. W. C. D.)
MARSH, GEORGE PERKINS (1801–1882), American diplomatist
and philologist, was born at Woodstock, Vermont, on
the 15th of March 1801. He graduated at Dartmouth College
in 1820, was admitted to the bar in 1825, and practised law
at Burlington, Vermont, devoting himself also with ardour to
philological studies. In 1835 he was a member of the Supreme
Executive Council of Vermont, and from 1843 to 1849 a Whig
representative in Congress. In 1849 he was appointed United
States minister resident in Turkey, and in 1852–1853 discharged
a mission to Greece in connexion with the imprisonment by
the authorities of that country of an American missionary,
Dr Jonas King (1792–1869). He returned to Vermont in 1854,
and in 1857 was a member of the state railway commission.
In 1861 he became the first United States minister to the kingdom
of Italy, and died in that office at Vallombrosa on the 23rd of
July 1882. He was buried in a Protestant cemetery in Rome.
Marsh was an able linguist, writing and speaking with ease the
Scandinavian and half a dozen other European languages, a
remarkable philologist for his day, and a scholar of great breadth,
knowing much of military science, engraving and physics, as
well as of Icelandic, which was his specialty. He wrote many
articles for Johnson’s Universal Cyclopaedia, and contributed
many reviews and letters to the Nation. His chief published
works are: A Compendious Grammar of the Old Northern or Icelandic Language (1838), compiled and translated from the
grammars of Rask; The Camel, his Organization, Habits, and Uses, with Reference to his Introduction into the United States (1856);
Lectures on the English Language (1860); The Origin and History of the English Language (1862; revised ed., 1885); and Man and Nature (1865). The last-named work was translated into
Italian in 1872, and, largely rewritten, was issued in 1874 under
the title The Earth as Modified by Human Action; a revised
edition was published in 1885. He also published a work on
Mediaeval and Modern Saints and Miracles (1876). His valuable
library was presented in 1883 by Frederick Billings to the
university of Vermont. His second wife, Caroline (Crane) Marsh (1816–1901), whom he married in 1839, published Wolfe of the Knoll and other Poems (1860), and the Life and Letters of George Perkins Marsh (New York, 1888). This last work was
left incomplete, the second volume never having been published.
She also translated from the German of Johann C.
Biernatzki (1795–1840), The Hallig; or the Sheepfold in the Waters (1856).
MARSH, HERBERT (1757–1839), English divine, was born at Faversham, Kent, on the 10th of December 1757, and was educated at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow in 1782, having been second wrangler and second Smith’s prizeman. For some years he studied at Leipzig, and between 1793 and 1801 published in four volumes a translation of J. D. Michaelis’s Introduction to the New Testament, with notes of his own, in which he may be said to have introduced German methods of research into English biblical scholarship. His History of the Politics of Great Britain and France (1799) brought him much notice and a pension from William Pitt. In 1807 he was appointed Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge, and lectured to large audiences on biblical criticism, substituting English for the traditional Latin. Both here, and afterwards as bishop of Llandaff (1816) and of Peterborough (1819), he stoutly opposed
