PREFACE

CONTENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II THE SAXON KINGS OF THE GERMANS, AND REVIVAL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE BY OTTO I. (919 (973)) [1]

CHAPTER III THE GERMAN EMPIRE AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS POWER; THE

CHAPTER IV FRANCE AND ITS VASSAL STATES UNDER THE LAST

CHAPTER V THE CLUNIAC REFORMATION (910 (1073)) AND ITALY IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY [5]

CHAPTER VI THE INVESTITURE CONTEST (1056 - 1125)

CHAPTER VII THE EASTERN EMPIRE AND THE SELJUKIAN TURKS (912 (1095)) [9]

CHAPTER VIII THE EARLY CRUSADES AND THE LATIN KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM (1095 (1187)) [10]

CHAPTER IX THE MONASTIC MOVEMENT AND THE TWELFTH CENTURY RENASCENCE [11]

CHAPTER X GERMANY AND ITALY, 1125 (1152) [15]

CHAPTER XI FREDERICK BARBAROSSA AND ALEXANDER III. THE RENEWED

CHAPTER XII FRANCE, NORMANDY, AND ANJOU, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF

CHAPTER XIII THE THIRD CRUSADE AND THE REIGN OF HENRY VI. [24] (1187 - 1197)

CHAPTER XIV EUROPE IN THE DAYS OF INNOCENT III. (1198 (1216)) [26]

CHAPTER XV THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY, THE

CHAPTER XVI FREDERICK II. AND THE PAPACY [28] (1216 - 1250)

CHAPTER XVII FRANCE UNDER PHILIP AUGUSTUS AND ST. LOUIS (1180 (1270)) [32]

CHAPTER XVIII THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE FRIARS [38]

CHAPTER XIX THE LAST CRUSADES AND THE EAST IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. [40]

CHAPTER XX THE GROWTH OF CHRISTIAN SPAIN [42]

CHAPTER XXI THE FALL OF THE HOHENSTAUFEN AND THE GREAT INTERREGNUM [1250 (1273)]. [44]

APPENDIX TABLES OF SOVEREIGNS

INDEX

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