| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I | The Historical Point of View | 1 |
| II | Western Europe before the Barbarian Invasions | 8 |
| III | The German Invasions and the Break-up of the Roman Empire | 25 |
| IV | The Rise of the Papacy | 44 |
| V | The Monks and the Conversion of the Germans | 56 |
| VI | Charles Martel and Pippin | 67 |
| VII | Charlemagne | 77 |
| VIII | The Disruption of Charlemagne's Empire | 92 |
| IX | Feudalism | 104 |
| X | The Development of France | 120 |
| XI | England in the Middle Ages | 133 |
| XII | Germany and Italy in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries | 148 |
| XIII | The Conflict Between Gregory VII and Henry IV | 164 |
| XIV | The Hohenstaufen Emperors and the Popes | 173 |
| XV | The Crusades | 187 |
| XVI | The MediÆval Church at its Height | 201 |
| XVII | Heresy and the Friars | 216 |
| XVIII | The People in Country and Town | 233 |
| XIX | The Culture of the Middle Ages | 250 |
| XX | The Hundred Years' War | 277 |
| XXI | The Popes and the Councils | 303 |
| XXII | The Italian Cities and the Renaissance | 321 |
| XXIII | Europe at the Opening of the Sixteenth Century | 354 |
| XXIV | Germany before the Protestant Revolt | 369 |
| XXV | Martin Luther and his Revolt against the Church | 387 |
| XXVI | Course of the Protestant Revolt in Germany, 1521–1555 | 405 |
| XXVII | The Protestant Revolt in Switzerland and England | 421 |
| XXVIII | The Catholic Reformation—Philip II | 437 |
| XXIX | The Thirty Years' War | 465 |
| XXX | Struggle in England for Constitutional Government | 475 |
| XXXI | The Ascendency of France Under Louis XIV | 495 |
| XXXII | Rise of Russia and Prussia | 509 |
| XXXIII | The Expansion of England | 523 |
| XXXIV | The Eve of the French Revolution | 537 |
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