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THE DOORS OF WISDOM

MEDIEVAL HISTORY LYBRARY

HISTORICAL COMPENDIUM OF THE MIDDLE AGES

MEDIEVAL HISTORY CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

CONSTANTINE THE GREAT ////JULIEN THE APOSTATE/// St. AMBROSE ///ATTILA/// JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA /// ISIDORE OF SEVILLE /// ALCUIN ///CHARLEMAGNE /// ANSKAR ///HINCMAR/// POPE GREGORY VII /// MATILDA OF TUSCANY /// BARBAROSSA/// SALADIN///INNOCENT III THE GREAT ///WILLIAM WALLACE /// HENRY THE NAVIGATOR/// FRANCESCO SFORZA /// POPE JULIUS II /// BEATRICE D' ESTE ///

THE CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEUTONIC KINGDOMS (300-500) /// ITALY AND HER INVADERS /// RISE OF THE SARACENS AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE/// THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE. (378-656) /// LATER ROMAN EMPIRE FROM ARCADIUS TO IRENE (395-800) ///GERMANY AND THE WESTERN EMPIRE /// THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE (717-1453) /// GREECE FROM ITS CONQUEST BY THE CRUSADERS TO ITS CONQUEST BY THE TURKS AND THE EMPIRE OF TREBIZOND  /// THE PRINCES OF ACHAIA AND THE CHRONICLES OF MOREA /// SALADIN AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM/// A HISTORY OF FRANKISH GREECE/// THE CONTEST BETWEEN EMPIRE AND PAPACY /// VICTORY OF THE PAPACY///DECLINE OF EMPIRE AND PAPACY /// THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES /// A HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THEORY IN THE WEST ///LITERARY HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES ///LEGENDS OF THE CONQUEST OF SPAIN AND THE CHRONICLE OF THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA

BEGINNING OF THE APOCALYPTICAL FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

AUGUSTUS: B.C. 31—A.D. 14 // TIBERIUS: A.D. 14-37 // CALIGULA: A.D. 37-41 // CLAUDIUS: A.D. 41-54 // NERO : A.D. 54-68 // GALBA : A.D. 68-39 // OTHO : A.D. 69 // VITELLIUS: A.D. 69 // VESPASIAN : A.D. 69-79 // TITUS: A.D. 79-81 // DOMITIAN : A.D. 81-96.

THE BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE AGES

I. Teutonic settlements in the west. Fall of the Empire in the West. (406-476). II. The new nations III. Condition of the Teutonic settlements IV. Conversion of the English V. Supremacy of the Franks in the West. The Merovingian Kings.

THE NEW RACES IN EUROPE.

THE VISIGOTHIC KINGDOM OF SPAIN, THE OSTROGOTHIC KINGDOM IN ITALY, THE FRANKS IN GAUL, THE LOMBARD KINGDOM IN ITALY.

CONSTANTINE THE GREAT

THE REORGANIZATION OF THE EMPIRE

AND

THE TRIUMPH OF THE CHURCH

EARLY HISTORY OF THE GOTHS. THE VISIGOTHS IN GAUL. (A.D. 412.507)

Migration to the Euxine. Ostrogoths. The Scythian War, 247-270. Philip, Emperor, 244-249. Invasion of the Empire, 249. Bithynia invaded, 259. The Emperor Claudius II. Battle of Naissus. Civilization of the Visigoths. Hermanric the Ostrogoth. Bishop Ulfilas, 311-381. Gothic Arianism. Wallia. 415-418. Theodoric and Aetius. 421-451. Invasion of Attila. 451. Theodoric II. 451-467. Euric. 467-484. Alaric II. 484-502. Battle of Vouglé.506-507

J. B. BURY’ CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY.

VOLUME I

THE CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPIRE

AND THE FOUNDATION

OF THE TEUTONIC KINGDOMS, A.D. 300-500

I.- CONSTANTINE AND HIS CITY

II.-THE REORGANISATION OF THE EMPIRE

III.-CONSTANTINE'S SUCCESSORS TO JOVIAN: AND THE STRUGGLE WITH PERSIA

IV.-THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY

V.-ARIANISM

VI.-THE ORGANISATION OF THE CHURCH

VII.-EXPANSION OF THE TEUTONS (To A.D. 378)

VIII.-THE DYNASTY OF VALENTINIAN AND THEODOSIUS THE GREAT

IX.-THE TEUTONIC MIGRATIONS, 378-412

X.-THE VISIGOTHS TO THE DEATH OF EURIC . THE FRANKS BEFORE CLOVIS

XI.-THE SUEVES, ALANS, AND VANDALS IN SPAIN, 409-429

XII.-THE HUNS: THE ASIATIC BACKGROUND. ATTILA

XIII.-ROMAN BRITAIN

XIV.-ITALY AND THE WEST, 410-476 

XV.-THE KINGDOM OF ITALY UNDER ODOVACAR AND THEODORIC

XVI.-THE EASTERN PROVINCES FROM ARCADIUS TO ANASTASIUS

XVII.-RELIGIOUS DISUNION IN THE FIFTH CENTURY. Nestorius

XVIII.- MONASTICISM

XIX.-SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY

XX.-THOUGHTS AND IDEAS OF THE PERIOD

XXI. EARLY CHRISTIAN ART

THE

EMPEROR JULIAN THE APOSTATE

PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY

THE ARIANS

OF THE FOURTH CENTURY

HISTORY OF THE CHURCH FROM THE EDICT OF MILAN, A.D. 313,

TO THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON, A.D. 451.

SAINT AMBROSE

340-397 A.D.

HIS LIFE AND TEACHING

ATTILA

KING OF THE HUNS AND HIS PREDECESSORS

THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE

FROM

THE DEATH OF THEODOSIUS

TO

THE DEATH OF JUSTINIAN

THE

AGE OF JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA

ISIDORE OF SEVILLE

556 - 636

AN ENCYCLOPEDIST OF THE DARK AGES

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE TEMPORAL SOVEREIGNTY OF THE POPES FROM A.D. 569 TO 754

THE SITUATION IN THE TIME OF KING LIUTPRAND. THE DUCHY OF ROME. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE POPE AND THE FRANKISH INTERVENTION.POPE STEPHEN II

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ST. BONIFACE

675 – 754

WALTER C. PERRY

THE FRANKS, FROM THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE IN HISTORY TO THE DEATH OF KING PEPIN

I.-From the First Appearance of the Franks to the Death of Clovis(AD 240-511) II.-From the Death of Clovis to the Death of Clotaire I (A.D.511—561) III. From the Death of Clotaire I to the Death of Brunhilda (AD.561—618) IV.-From the Death of Brunhilda to the Death of Charles Martel(AD.618—741) V.-From the death of Charles Martel to the death of Pepin the Short (AD 741—768)

JOHN WEALE.

CHARLES MARTEL AND THE RESCUE OF EUROPE FROM THE THREATENED YOKE OF THE SARACENS. FRANKS AND SARACENS

PART I. THE MOSLEMS. I. Life and doctrine of Mohammed II.—The Khalifate from Abu Bekr to Hesham.

PART II. THE FRANKS. CHAPTER I.—The Frank Confederacy.—Clovis, the Founder of the Frank Monarchy II.—Decline of the Merovingian Princes.—The Mayors of the Palace.—Pepin of Landen—Pepin of Heristal. — Charles Martel. —The Battle of Tours

CHARLEMAGNE

AND

THE FRANKS

RESTORATION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE BY CHARLEMAGNE.

I. The Bretons II. The Gascons III. The Frisons IV. The Saxons V. The Abodrites VI. The Allemans and Bavarians

A HISTORY OF THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE FROM THE FALL OF IRENE TO THE ACCESSION OF BASIL I.(AD. 802-867)

LIFE OF ALCUIN

A.D. 724 - 802

J.B. BURY’ CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY 

VOLUME III 

GERMANY AND THE WESTERN EMPIRE

I. LOUIS THE PIOUS.

II. THE CAROLINGIAN KINGDOMS (840-877)

III. THE CAROLINGIAN KINGDOMS (877-918)

IV. FRANCE, THE LAST CAROLINGIANS AND THE ACCESSION OF HUGH CAPET (888-987)

V. FRANCE IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY.

VI. THE KINGDOM OF BURGUNDY.

VII. ITALY IN THE TENTH CENTURY.

VIII. HENRY I AND OTTO THE GREAT.

IX. OTTO II AND OTTO III.

X. THE EMPEROR HENRY II.

XI. THE EMPEROR CONRAD II.

XII. THE EMPEROR HENRY III.

XIII. THE VIKINGS.

XIV. THE FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND.

XV. ENGLAND FROM AD 954 TO THE DEATH OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR.

XVI. THE WESTERN CALIPHATE.

XVII. THE CHURCH FROM CHARLEMAGNE TO SYLVESTER II.

XVIII. FEUDALISM.

XIX. LEARNING AND LITERATURE TILL THE DEATH OF BEDE.

XX. LEARNING AND LITERATURE TILL POPE SYLVESTER II.

XXI. BYZANTINE AND ROMANESQUE ARTS.

A SHORT HISTORY OF ANTIOCH

300 B.C.-A.D. 1268

HORACE K. MANN

THE LIVES OF THE POPES IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

THE POPES IN THE DAYS OF FEUDAL ANARCHY

GREEKS AND SARACENS

The Two Sieges of Constantinople by the Arabs. — Their Invasion of France and Defeat by Charles Martel. — Civil War of the Ommiades and Abbassides. — Learning of the Arabs. — Luxury of the Caliphs. — Naval Enterprises on Crete, Sicily and Rome. — Decay and Division of the Empire of the Caliphs.— Defeats and Victories of the Greek Emperors.

ANSKAR

The Apostle of the North. 801-865

THE

LATER ROMAN EMPIRE FROM ARCADIUS TO

IRENE

LIFE AND TIMES 

OF

HINCMAR

MATILDA OF TUSCANY

A.D. 1046 –1115

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HILDEBRAND

POPE GREGORY VII

 1015 –1085

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ROGER OF SICILY

AND THE NORMAN CONQUEST IN LOWER ITALY

1016-1154

THE HANSA, 1150-1400.

THE IBERIAN PENINSULA, A D. c. 1000-1344. ENGLAND, A.D. 1087-1189.

HISTORY OF ENGLAND, A.D. 1189-1377

RICHARD I . HENRY III . EDWARD II . EDWARD III

Alfred Rambaud

MEDIEVAL RUSSIA TO THE FALL OF KIEF IN A.D. 1169

THE NORTHMEN IN RUSSIA: ORIGIN AND CUSTOMS OF THE VARIAGI. 862-972. THE FIRST RUSSIAN PRINCES: RURIK, OLEG, IGOR. THE FIRST EXPEDITIONS AGAINST CONSTANTINOPLE. OLGA: CHRISTIANITY IN RUSSIA. SVIATOSLAF.SAINT VLADIMIR AND IAROSLAF THE GREAT.972-1054. THE SUCCESSORS OF IAROSLAF THE GREAT.— WARS FOR THE RIGHTS OF ELDERSHIP AND THE THRONE OF KIEF. VLADIMIR MONOMAKH.—FALL OF KIEF.

THE SAXON EMPERORS

Henry the Fawler. Conquests in the Slavian Northeast—Defeat of the Hungarians Otto I. The Reincorporation of Italy with the Empire. Otto II, Otto III. Henry II the Holy. Immunities—Increasing Importance of the Churches and Cities, and Consequent Decrease of the Ducal Power

BURY'S CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY

VOLUME IV

THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE

(717-1453)

THE ARAB CONQUEST OF EGYPT

AND

THE LAST THIRTY YEARS OF THE ROMAN DOMINION

CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY

VOLUME V

THE CONTEST BETWEEN EMPIRE AND PAPACY

I. THE REFORM OF THE CHURCH

II. GREGORY VII AND THE FIRST CONTEST BETWEEN EMPEROR AND PAPACY

III. GERMANY UNDER HENRY IV AND HENRY

IV. THE CONQUEST OF SOUTH ITALY AND SICILY BY THE NORMANS

V. THE ITALIAN CITIES TILL c. 1200.

VI. ISLAM IN SYRIA AND EGYPT, 750—1100

VII. THE FIRST CRUSADE.

VIII. THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM, 1099—1291

IX. THE EFFECTS OF THE CRUSADES UPON WESTERN EUROPE.

X. GERMANY, 1125—1152

XI. ITALY, 1125—1152

XII.FREDERICK BARBAROSSA AND GERMANY

XIII. FREDERICK BARBAROSSA AND THE LOMBARD LEAGUE

XIV. THE EMPEROR HENRY VI.

XV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DUCHY OF NORMANDY AND THE NORMAN CONQUEST OF ENGLAND

XVI. ENGLAND, 1087-1154.

XVII. ENGLAND: HENRY II.

XVIII. FRANCE: LOUIS VI AND LOUIS VII (1108—1180).

XIX. THE COMMUNAL MOVEMENT, ESPECIALLY IN FRANCE.

XX. THE MONASTIC ORDERS.

XXI. ROMAN AND CANON LAW IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

XXII. MEDIEVAL SCHOOLS TO c. 1300.

XXIII. PHILOSOPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

FREDERICK I "BARBAROSSA"

1122 - 1190

HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR

POPE INNOCENT III THE GREAT

1160 - 1216

AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND TIMES

THE FALL OF THE HOHENSTAUFFEN,

A.D. 1250-1268—

NAPLES AND SICILY,

A.D.1268-1301

GERMANY

From Rudolf of Habsburg to the death of Charles IV

1273-1378

THE CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY

VOLUME VI

VICTORY OF THE PAPACY

I. INNOCENT III.

II. PHILIP OF SWABIA AND OTTO IV.

III. GERMANY IN THE REIGN OF FREDERICK II

IV. THE INTERREGNUM IN GERMANY.

V. ITALY AND SICILY UNDER FREDERICK II

VI. ITALY, 1230-1280.

VII. ENGLAND: RICHARD I AND JOHN

VIII. ENGLAND: HENRY III

IX. THE REIGNS OF PHILIP AUGUSTUS AND LOUIS VIII OF FRANCE

X. SAINT LOUIS

XI.  THE SCANDINAVIAN KINGDOMS UNTIL THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY

XII. SPAIN, 1034—1240.

XIII. (A)  BOHEMIA TO THE EXTINCTION OF THE PREMYSLIDS. (B) POLAND, 1050-1303. (C) HUNGARY, 1000—1301

XIV. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

XV. NORTHERN TOWNS AND THEIR COMMERCE.

XVI. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANISATION AND ITS FINANCIAL BASIS

XVII.  THE MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES

XVIII. POLITICAL THEORY TO c. 1300.

XIX. MEDIEVAL DOCTRINE IN THE LATERAN COUNCIL OF 1215

XX. HERESIES AND THE INQUISITION IN THE MIDDLE AGES c. 1000—1305.

XXI. THE MENDICANT ORDERS.

XXII. ECCLESIASTICAL AND MILITARY ARCHITECTURE

XXIII. THE ART OF WAR TO 1400

XXIV. CHIVALRY.

XXV. LEGENDARY CYCLES OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

THE ART

OF

WAR IN THE MIDDLE AGES

A.D. 378—1515

BIBLIOMANIA IN THE MIDDLE AGES

by

F. Somner Merryweather

----------------------

PHILOBIBLON. A Treatise on THE LOVE OF BOOKS

BY
RICHARD DE BURY

THE

LIFE OF THOMAS AQUINAS:

A dissertation of the scholastic philosophy of the middle ages

THE KINGDOM OF BURGUNDY OR ARLES

FROM THE ELEVENTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

THE HISTORY OF ITALY

FROM THE EXTINCTION OF THE CAROLINGIAN EMPERORS

TO THE INVASION OF NAPLES BY CHARLES VIII.

THE CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY

VOLUME VI

DECLINE OF EMPIRE AND PAPACY

INTRODUCTION.

I. ITALY IN THE TIME OF DANTE

II. ITALY, 1313-1414

III GERMANY, 1273-1313

IV. GERMANY: LEWIS THE BAVARIAN

V. GERMANY: CHARLES IV

VI. BOHEMIA IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

VII. THE SWISS CONFEDERATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES

VIII. THE HANSA

IX. THE TEUTONIC ORDER

X. THE POPES OF AVIGNON AND THE GREAT SCHISM

XI. FRANCE: THE LAST CAPETIANS5

XII. FRANCE: THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR (TO 1380)

XIII. FRANCE: ARMAGNACS AND BURGUNDIANS (1380-1422)

XIV. ENGLAND: EDWARD I AND EDWARD II

XV. ENGLAND: EDWARD III AND RICHARD II

XVI. WYCLIF

XVII. WALES, 1066 TO 1485

XVIII. IRELAND TO 1315

XIX. SCOTLAND TO 1328

XX. SPAIN, 1252-1410

XXI. RUSSIA, 1015-1462

XXII. THE JEWS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

XXIII. MEDIEVAL ESTATES

XXIV. PEASANT LIFE AND RURAL CONDITIONS (c. 1100 TO c. 1500).

XXV. THE EARLY RENAISSANCE

XXVI. MEDIEVAL MYSTICISM

THE PRINCES OF ACHAIA

AND

THE CHRONICLES OF MOREA

SALADIN AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM

A HISTORY OF FRANKISH GREECE

A HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THEORY IN THE WEST

LITERARY HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

comprehending
AN ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF LEARNING,
from the close of the Reign of Augustus, to
ITS REVIVAL IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

THE CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY

VOLUME VIII

THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES

THE EMPEROR SIGISMUND (1368 –1437)

I.THE COUNCILS OF CONSTANCE AND BASLE.

II. JOHN HUS.

III. BOHEMIA IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

IV. THE EMPIRE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

V. THE PAPACY AND NAPLES IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

VI. FLORENCE AND NORTH ITALY, 1414-1492.

VII. FRANCE: THE REIGN OF CHARLES VII AND THE END OF THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR.

VIII. FRANCE: LOUIS XI.

IX. THE KINGDOM OF BURGUNDY OR ARLES FROM THE ELEVENTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

X. THE LOW COUNTRIES.

XI. ENGLAND: THE LANCASTRIAN KINGS, 1399-1461

XII. ENGLAND: THE YORKIST KINGS, 1461-1485

XIII. IRELAND, 1315-c. 1485.

XIV. SCOTLAND, 1328-1488

XV. SPAIN, 1412-1516.

XVI. PORTUGAL IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

XVII. THE SCANDINAVIAN KINGDOMS DURING THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES.

XVIII. POLAND AND LITHUANIA IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES.

XIX. HUNGARY, 1301-1490.

XX. POLITICAL THEORY IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES.

XXI. THE ART OF WAR IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

XXII. MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, ASTROLOGY, AND ALCHEMY.

XXIII. EDUCATION IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES

XXIV. PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND THE ARTS

XXV. THE RENAISSANCE IN EUROPE

EPILOGUE

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