Synopsis
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPE
By James Harvey Robinson
Contents
1. The Historical Point of View
2. Western Europe before the Barbarian Invasions
3. The German Invasions and the Break-Up of the Roman Empire
4. The Rise of the Papacy
5. The Monks and the Conversion of the Germans
6. Charles Martel and Pippin
7. Charlemagne
8. The Disruption of Charlemagne’s Empire
9. Feudalism
10. The Development of France
11. England in the Middle Ages
12. Germany and Italy in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
13. The Conflict between Gregory VII and Henry IV
14. The Hohenstaufen Emperors and the Popes
15. The Crusades
16. The Medieval Church at its Height
17. Heresy and the Friars
18. The People in Country and Town
19. The Culture of the Middle Ages
20. The Hundred Years’ War
21. The Popes and the Councils
22. The Italian Cities and the Renaissance
23. Europe at the Opening of the Sixteenth Century
24. Germany before the Protestant Revolt
25. Martin Luther and His Revolt against the Church
26. Course of the Protestant Revolt in Germany, 1521-1555
27. The Protestant Revolt in Switzerland and England
28. The Catholic Reformation — Philip II
29. The Thirty Years’ War
30. Struggle in England for Constitutional Government
31. The Ascendency of France under Louis XIV
32. Rise of Russia and Prussia
33. The Expansion of England
34. The Eve of the French Revolution
35. The French Revolution
36. The First French Republic
37. Napoleon Bonaparte
38. Europe and Napoleon
39. Europe after the Congress of Vienna
40. The Unification of Italy and Germany
41. Europe of To-Day
Chapter 1 Excerpt
History, in the broadest sense of the word, is all that we know about everything that man has ever done, or thought, or hoped, or felt. It is the limitless science of past human affairs, a subject immeasurably vast and important but exceedingly vague. The historian may busy himself deciphering hieroglyphics on an Egyptian obelisk, describing a mediaeval monastery, enumerating the Mongol emperors of Hindustan or the battles of Napoleon. He may explain how the Roman Empire was conquered by the German barbarians, or why the United States and Spain came to blows in 1898, or what Calvin thought of Luther, or what a French peasant had to eat in the eighteenth century. We can know something of each of these matters if we choose to examine the evidence which still exists; they all help to make up history.
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