An Introduction to the History of Western Europe

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James Harvey Robinson

PREFACE

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPE

CHAPTER I THE HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW The scope of history.

CHAPTER II WESTERN EUROPE BEFORE THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS Extent of the Roman Empire.

CHAPTER III THE GERMAN INVASIONS AND THE BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN

CHAPTER IV THE RISE OF THE PAPACY The greatness of the Church.

CHAPTER V THE MONKS AND THE CONVERSION OF THE GERMANS Importance of the monks as a class.

CHAPTER VI CHARLES MARTEL AND PIPPIN Charles Martel, Frankish mayor of the palace, 714 - 741.

CHAPTER VII CHARLEMAGNE

CHAPTER VIII THE DISRUPTION OF CHARLEMAGNE'S EMPIRE Louis the Pious succeeds Charlemagne.

CHAPTER IX FEUDALISM Feudalism the outgrowth of prevailing conditions and earlier customs.

CHAPTER X THE DEVELOPMENT OF FRANCE Importance of studying the beginnings of the modern European states.

CHAPTER XI ENGLAND IN THE MIDDLE AGES Importance of England in the history of western Europe.

CHAPTER XII GERMANY AND ITALY IN THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH

CHAPTER XIII THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GREGORY VII AND HENRY IV The Dictatus of Gregory VII.

CHAPTER XIV THE HOHENSTAUFEN EMPERORS AND THE POPES

CHAPTER XV THE CRUSADES

CHAPTER XVI THE MEDIAEVAL CHURCH AT ITS HEIGHT

CHAPTER XVII HERESY AND THE FRIARS The question of the character of the mediAEval clergy.

CHAPTER XVIII THE PEOPLE IN COUNTRY AND TOWN Little known of the life of the people in the Middle Ages.

CHAPTER XIX THE CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES

CHAPTER XX THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR Plan of the following four chapters.

CHAPTER XXI THE POPES AND THE COUNCILS The problem of the relation of church and state.

CHAPTER XXII THE ITALIAN CITIES AND THE RENAISSANCE Italy the

CHAPTER XXIII EUROPE AT THE OPENING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER XXIV GERMANY BEFORE THE PROTESTANT REVOLT Two

CHAPTER XXV MARTIN LUTHER AND HIS REVOLT AGAINST THE CHURCH Luther's birth and education.

CHAPTER XXVI COURSE OF THE PROTESTANT REVOLT IN GERMANY 1521 -

CHAPTER XXVII THE PROTESTANT REVOLT IN SWITZERLAND AND ENGLAND

CHAPTER XXVIII THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION PHILIP II The conservative or Catholic reformation.

CHAPTER XXIX THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR The Thirty Years' War really a series of wars.

CHAPTER XXX STRUGGLE IN ENGLAND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER XXXI THE ASCENDENCY OF FRANCE UNDER LOUIS XIV France at the accession of Louis XIV, 1643 - 1715.

CHAPTER XXXII RISE OF RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA

CHAPTER XXXIII THE EXPANSION OF ENGLAND

CHAPTER XXXIV THE EVE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

CHAPTER XXXV THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Reforms proposed by Calonne.

CHAPTER XXXVI THE FIRST FRENCH REPUBLIC

CHAPTER XXXVII NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The Napoleonic Period.

CHAPTER XXXVIII EUROPE AND NAPOLEON The demoralized condition of France, and Bonaparte's reforms.

CHAPTER XXXIX EUROPE AFTER THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA Problem of

CHAPTER XL THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY AND GERMANY The general

CHAPTER XLI EUROPE OF TO-DAY

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INDEX

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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPE

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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE

History Of Western Europe



BY

JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON
Professor of History in Columbia University



History is no easy science;
its subject, human society,
is infinitely complex.
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