VOLUME V

An Outline Narrative of the Great Events, CHARLES F. HORNE

Feudalism: Its Frankish Birth and English Development (9th to 12th Century), WILLIAM STUBBS

Decay of the Frankish Empire Division into Modern France, Germany, and Italy (A.D. 843-911), FRANÇOIS P. G. GUIZOT

Career of Alfred the Great (A.D. 871-901), THOMAS HUGHES, JOHN R. GREEN

Henry the Fowler Founds the Saxon Line of German Kings, Origin of the German Burghers or Middle Classes (A.D. 911-936), WOLFGANG MENZEL

Conquest of Egypt by the Fatimites (A.D. 969), STANLEY LANE-POOLE

Growth and Decadence of Chivalry (10th to 15th Century), LÉON GAUTIER

Conversion of Vladimir the Great, Introduction of Christianity into Russia (A.D. 988-1015), A. N. MOURAVIEFF

Leif Ericson Discovers America (A.D. 1000), CHARLES C. RAFN, SAGA OF ERIC THE RED

Mahometans In India, Bloody Invasions under Mahmud (A.D. 1000), ALEXANDER DOW

Canute Becomes King of England (A.D. 1017), DAVID HUME

Henry III Deposes the Popes (A.D. 1048), The German Empire Controls the Papacy, FERDINAND GREGOROVIUS, JOSEPH DARRAS

Dissension and Separation of the Greek and Roman Churches (A.D. 1054), HENRY F. TOZER, JOSEPH DEHARBE

Norman Conquest of England, Battle of Hastings (A.D. 1066), SIR EDWARD S. CREASY

Triumphs of Hildebrand, "The Turning-point of the Middle Ages", Henry IV Begs for Mercy at Canossa (A.D. 1073-1085), ARTHUR R. PENNINGTON, ARTAUD DE MONTOR

Completion of the Domesday Book (A.D. 1086), CHARLES KNIGHT

Decline of the Moorish Power in Spain, Growth and Decay of the Almoravide and Almohade Dynasties (A.D. 1086-1214), S.A. DUNHAM

The First Crusade (A.D. 1096-1099), SIR GEORGE W. COX

Foundation of the Order of Knights Templars (A.D. 1118), CHARLES G. ADDISON

Stephen Usurps the English Crown, His Conflicts with Matilda, Decisive Influence of the Church (A.D. 1135-1154), CHARLES KNIGHT

Antipapal Democratic Movement, Arnold of Brescia, St. Bernard and the Second Crusade (A.D. 1145-1155), JOHANN A. W. NEANDER

Decline of the Byzantine Empire, Ravages of Roger of Sicily (A.D. 1146), GEORGE FINLAY

Universal Chronology (A.D. 843-1161), JOHN RUDD