The Dark Ages, 476-918

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AUTHOR'S PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I ODOACER AND THEODORIC 476-493

CHAPTER II THEODORIC KING OF ITALY 493-526

CHAPTER III THE EMPERORS AT CONSTANTINOPLE 476-527

CHAPTER IV CHLODOVECH AND THE FRANKS IN GAUL 481-511

CHAPTER V JUSTINIAN AND HIS WARS A.D. 528-540

CHAPTER VI JUSTINIAN ( continued ) 540-565 A.D.

CHAPTER VII THE EARLIER FRANKISH KINGS AND THEIR ORGANISATION OF GAUL 511-561.

CHAPTER VIII THE VISIGOTHS IN SPAIN 531-603

CHAPTER IX THE SUCCESSORS OF JUSTINIAN 565-610

CHAPTER X DECLINE AND DECAY OF THE MEROVINGIANS 561-656.

CHAPTER XI THE LOMBARDS IN ITALY, AND THE RISE OF THE PAPACY 568-653

CHAPTER XII HERACLIUS AND MOHAMMED 610-641

CHAPTER XIII THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE VISIGOTHS A.D. 603-711

CHAPTER XIV THE CONTEST OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE AND THE CALIPHATE 641-717

CHAPTER XV THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT MAYORS OF THE PALACE 656-720

CHAPTER XVI THE LOMBARDS AND THE PAPACY 653-743

CHAPTER XVII CHARLES MARTEL AND HIS WARS 720-41

CHAPTER XVIII THE ICONOCLAST EMPERORS STATE OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY 717-802

CHAPTER XIX PIPPIN THE SHORT WARS OF THE FRANKS AND LOMBARDS 741-768

CHAPTER XX CHARLES THE GREAT EARLY YEARS 768-785 CONQUEST OF LOMBARDY AND SAXONY.

CHAPTER XXI THE LATER WARS AND CONQUESTS OF CHARLES THE GREAT 785-814

CHAPTER XXII CHARLES THE GREAT AND THE EMPIRE

CHAPTER XXIII LEWIS THE PIOUS 814-840

CHAPTER XXIV DISRUPTION OF THE FRANKISH EMPIRE THE COMING OF THE VIKINGS 840-855

CHAPTER XXV THE DARKEST HOUR A.D. 855-887

CHAPTER XXVI ITALY AND SICILY IN THE NINTH CENTURY (827-924)

CHAPTER XXVII GERMANY 888-918

CHAPTER XXVIII THE EASTERN EMPIRE IN THE NINTH CENTURY 802-912

CHAPTER XXIX THE END OF THE NINTH CENTURY IN WESTERN EUROPE. CONCLUSION

APPENDIX TABLES OF SOVEREIGNS

INDEX

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PERIODS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY
PERIOD I., 476-918

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Period I.—The Dark Ages. A.D. 476-918. By C. W. C. Oman, M.A., Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. 7s. 6d. [Already published.

Period II.—The Empire and the Papacy. A.D. 918-1273. By T. F. Tout, M.A., Professor of History at the Owens College, Victoria University, Manchester. 7s. 6d. [Already published.

Period III.—The Close of the Middle Ages. A.D. 1272-1494. By R. Lodge, M.A., Professor of History at the University of Glasgow. [In preparation.

Period IV.—Europe in the 16th Century. A.D. 1494-1598. By A. H. Johnson, M.A., Historical Lecturer to Merton, Trinity, and University Colleges, Oxford. 7s. 6d. [Already published.

Period V.—The Ascendancy of France. A.D. 1598-1715. By H. O. Wakeman, M.A., Fellow of All Souls College, and Tutor of Keble College, Oxford. 6s. [Already published.

Period VI.—The Balance of Power. A.D. 1715-1789. By A. Hassall, M.A., Student of Christ Church, Oxford. 6s. [Already published.

Period VII.—Revolutionary Europe. A.D. 1789-1815. By H. Morse Stephens, M.A., Professor of History at Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A. 6s. [Already published.

Period VIII.—Modern Europe. A.D. 1815-1878. By G. W. Prothero, Litt.D., Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. [In preparation.


THE DARK AGES
 

476-918

BY
CHARLES OMAN, M.A., F.S.A.
FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE
AND LECTURER AT NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD
AUTHOR OF ‘A HISTORY OF GREECE,’
‘THE ART OF WAR IN THE MIDDLE AGES,’ ETC.
PERIOD I
RIVINGTONS
KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN
LONDON
1898
Third Edition

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