CONTENTS.
James White
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FIRST CENTURY.
THE BAD EMPERORS
9
SECOND CENTURY.
THE GOOD EMPERORS.
41
THIRD CENTURY.
ANARCHY AND CONFUSION—?GROWTH OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
65
FOURTH CENTURY.
THE REMOVAL TO CONSTANTINOPLE—?ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIANITY—??APOSTASY OF JULIAN—?SETTLEMENT OF THE GOTHS.
83
FIFTH CENTURY.
END OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE—?FORMATION OF MODERN STATES—?GROWTH OF ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITY.
105
SIXTH CENTURY.
BELISARIUS AND NARSES IN ITALY—?SETTLEMENT OF THE LOMBARDS—?LAWS OF JUSTINIAN—?BIRTH OF MOHAMMED.
123
SEVENTH CENTURY.
POWER OF ROME SUPPORTED BY THE MONKS—?CONQUESTS OF THE MOHAMMEDANS.
141
EIGHTH CENTURY.
TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPES—?THE EMPIRE OF CHARLEMAGNE.
171
NINTH CENTURY.
DISMEMBERMENT OF CHARLEMAGNE’S EMPIRE—?DANISH INVASION OF ENGLAND—?WEAKNESS OF FRANCE—?REIGN OF ALFRED.
193
TENTH CENTURY.
DARKNESS AND DESPAIR.
219
ELEVENTH CENTURY.
THE COMMENCEMENT OF IMPROVEMENT—?GREGORY THE SEVENTH—?FIRST CRUSADE.
241
TWELFTH CENTURY.
ELEVATION OF LEARNING—?POWER OF THE CHURCH—?THOMAS À-BECKETT.
269
THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
FIRST CRUSADE AGAINST HERETICS—?THE ALBIGENSES—?MAGNA CHARTA—?EDWARD I.
297
FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
ABOLITION OF THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLARS—?RISE OF MODERN LITERATURES—?SCHISM OF THE CHURCH.
325
FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
DECLINE OF FEUDALISM—?AGINCOURT—?JOAN OF ARC—?THE PRINTING-PRESS—?DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
359
SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
THE REFORMATION—?THE JESUITS—?POLICY OF ELIZABETH.
401
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
ENGLISH REBELLION AND REVOLUTION—?DESPOTISM OF LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH.
447
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
INDIA—?AMERICA—?FRANCE
491
INDEX
527
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