Mediaeval and Modern History

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Ginn, 1905 - 751 pages
 

Contents

The Simopetra Monastery of Mount Athos
25
A Monk Copyist
26
The Cologne Cathedral
34
Trial by Combat
38
Wager of Battle between a Man and Woman
39
The Kaaba at Mecca
47
CONTENTS
51
The Mosque of Cordova
58
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70
A Viking Ship
72
SECOND PERIOD THE AGE OF REVIVAL
77
The Ceremony of Homage
82
Typical Medieval Castle
88
Group in the Manor House
92
PAGE
95
A Tilting Match between Two Knights
96
Degradation of a Knight
97
ΙΟΙ
103
Landing in England of William of Normandy ΙΟΙ 20 Battle of Hastings
104
Domesday Book
107
The Papacy and the Empire
111
The Spiritual and the Temporal Power
112
Investiture of a Bishop by a King
116
The Crusades 10961273
120
Reception of Crusaders by the King of Hungary
128
The Horses of St Marks
137
Crusades in Europe
141
A Medieval Windmill
144
Supremacy of the Papacy Decline of its Temporal Power
147
The Mongols and the Ottoman Turks
159
HutWagon of the Medieval Tartars
160
The Taj Mahal at Agra
163
Ruins of the Great Mosque at Samarkand
168
The Growth of the Towns
169
The Amphitheater at Arles in Medieval Times
170
A Count and his Wife granting a Charter to a City
171
State Barge of Venice used in the Ceremony of Wedding the Adriatic
180
A Canal in Venice
181
The Universities and the Schoolmen
187
Formation of National Govern
198
The Murder of Thomas Becket
200
Carnarvon Castle 190 201
205
Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey
207
Charge of French Knights and Flight of English Arrows 213 41 Joan of
213
242
227
the Castle of Foix
228
Recumbent Effigy of Queen Isabella
232
The Electors Seat
236
Italy
244
Savonarola
248
The Renaissance
251
Dante
253
Petrarch
257
66
258
Queen Elizabeth 49 A BlockPrinted Page from the Biblia Pauperum
263
Erasmus
296
Martin Luther
301
John Calvin
309
Ignatius of Loyola
312
The Ascendancy of Spain her Relation to the Catholic
318
Philip II
326
The Tudors and the English Reformation 14851603
334
Henry VIII
339
Sir Thomas More
342
Mary Queen of Scots 66 Mary Stuart as Queen of France
355
Spanish and English War Vessels of the Sixteenth Century
358
Melrose Abbey
362
Rise of the Dutch Republic
363
William of Orange The Silent
367
Coat of Arms of William Prince of Orange
375
The Huguenot Wars in France 15621629
376
Henry IV King of France
382
Cardinal Richelieu
384
Gustavus Adolphus
389
FOURTH PERIODTHE ERA OF THE POLITICAL
396
The Ascendancy of France under Louis XIV 16431715
403
Louis XIV
405
Duke of Marlborough
412
The Stuarts and the English Revolution 16031689
420
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE NAPOLEONIC
500
THE RESTORATION OF 1815 AND THE DEMOCRATIC
580
France since the Second Restoration 18151905
589
England since the Battle of Waterloo 18151905
599
Extension of the Principle of Religious Equality
605
Englands Relations with Ireland
609
Spain and the Revolt of her American Colonies
614
The Liberation and Unification of Italy
619
The Making of the New German Empire
634
AustriaHungary after 1866
652
Russia since the French Revolution
654
European Expansion in the Nineteenth Century I Causes and General Phases of the Expansion Movement
664
The Expansion of England
669
The Expansion of France
678
The Expansion of Germany
680
The Expansion of Russia 609
682
264
725
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726
654
728
664
730
678
732
INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY
734
326
736
687
737
339
740
346
741
697
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705
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