| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I. | Odoacer and Theodoric, 476-493, | 1 |
| II. | Theodoric King of Italy, 493-526, | 19 |
| III. | The Emperors at Constantinople, 476-527, | 33 |
| IV. | Chlodovech and the Franks in Gaul, 481-511, | 55 |
| V. | Justinian and his Wars, 528-540, | 65 |
| VI. | Justinian—(continued), 540-565, | 89 |
| VII. | The Earlier Frankish Kings and their Organisation of Gaul, 511-561, | 111 |
| VIII. | The Visigoths in Spain, 531-603, | 128 |
| IX. | The Successors of Justinian, 565-610, | 145 |
| X. | Decline and Decay of the Merovingians, 561-656, | 158 |
| XI. | The Lombards in Italy and the Rise of the Papacy, 568-653, | 181 |
| XII. | Heraclius and Mohammed, 610-641, | 204 |
| XIII. | The Decline and Fall of the Visigoths, A.D. 603-711, | 221 |
| XIV. | The Contest of the Eastern Empire and the Caliphate, 641-717, | 235 |
| XV. | The History of the Great Mayors of the Palace, 656-720, | 256 |
| XVI. | The Lombards and the Papacy, 653-743, | 272 |
| XVII. | Charles Martel and his Wars, 720-41, | 289 |
| XVIII. | The Iconoclast Emperors—state of the Eastern Empire in the Eighth Century, 717-802, | 300 |
| XIX. | Pippin the Short—Wars of the Franks and Lombards, 741-768, | 322 |
| XX. | Charles the Great—early years 768-785—Conquest of Lombardy and Saxony, | 335 |
| XXI. | The later Wars and Conquests of Charles the Great, 785-814, | 357 |
| XXII. | Charles the Great and the Empire, | 369 |
| XXIII. | Lewis the Pious, 814-840, | 383 |
| XXIV. | Disruption of the Frankish Empire—the coming of the Vikings, 840-855, | 405 |
| XXV. | The Darkest hour, 855-887. From the Death of Lothair I. to the Deposition of Charles the Fat, | 424 |
| XXVI. | Italy and Sicily in the Ninth Century, 827-924, | 446 |
| XXVII. | Germany, 888-918, | 468 |
| XXVIII. | The Eastern Empire in the Ninth Century, 802-912, | 478 |
| XXIX. | The end of the Ninth Century in Western Europe. Conclusion, | 496 |
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| Index | 519 |
