A Short History of Medieval and Modern Times

Ginn, 1923 - 467 pages

THE CHIEF FACTORS IN EURO PEAN CIVILIZATION	1

FIRST PERIOD THE DARK AGES From the Fall of Rome to the Eleventh Century II THE BARBARIAN KINGDOMS	5

THE CHURCH AND ITS INSTITUTIONS IO I The Conversion of the Barbarians	10

The Rise of Monasticism	13

The Rise of the Papacy	15

THE FUSION OF LATIN AND TEUTON	20

THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE EAST	24

CHARLEMAGNE AND THE RESTORATION OF THE EMPIRE IN THE WEST	31

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE REFORMATION	139

THE ASCENDANCY OF SPAIN HER RELATION TO THE CATHOLIC REACTION I Reign of the Emperor Charles V 15191556	155

Spain under Philip II 15561598	160

THE TUDORS AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATION 1485	163

The Reign of Henry VII 14851509	164

PAGE	186

FOURTH PERIOD THE ERA OF THE POLITICAL	205

FREDERICK THE GREAT 1740	249

THE COMING OF THE VIKINGS	38

SECOND PERIOD THE AGE OF REVIVAL From the Opening of the Eleventh Century to the Discovery of America by Columbus in 1492	42

Chivalry	50

THE NORMAN CONQUEST OF ENGLAND	54

THE PAPACY AND THE EMPIRE	59

THE CRUSADES 10961273	65

SUPREMACY OF THE PAPACY DECLINE OF ITS TEM PORAL POWER	74

TURANIAN CONQUESTS MONGOLS AND TURKS	80

THE GROWTH OF THE TOWNS	85

THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE SCHOOLMEN	90

FORMATION OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS AND LITERATURES	94

England	95

France	107

Spain	111

Germany	112

Russia	112

Italy	112

THE RENAISSANCE	112

THE MODERN AGE THIRD PERIOD THE ERA OF THE REFORMATION From the Discovery of America in 1492 to the Peace of Westphalia in 1...	120

ENGLAND IN The EighteeNTH CENTURY	257

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 17891799	268

THE CONSULATE AND THE NAPOLEONIC EMPIRE	299

FROM THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA TO THE TREATY	321

WORLD WAR 18151914	336

EVOLUTION TOWARD World FEDERATION	411

74	461

THE POSTWAR PERIOD	468

80	485

85	485

INDEX	485

91	485

114	485

119	xiii

139	xvii

160	xviii

Final Establishment of Protestantism under Elizabeth 15581603 བ བབ རེ རྨུུ 163 163 165 166 174 176	xix

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Title	A Short History of Medieval and Modern Times
Author	Philip Van Ness Myers
Edition	revised
Publisher	Ginn, 1923
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	23 Jan 2019
Length	467 pages

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