THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS

CONTENTS

VOLUME V

An Outline Narrative of the Great Events, CHARLES F. HORNE

Feudalism: Its Frankish Birth and English Development (9th to 12th Century), WILLIAM STUBBS

Decay of the Frankish Empire Division into Modern France, Germany, and Italy (A.D. 843-911), FRANÇOIS P. G. GUIZOT

Career of Alfred the Great (A.D. 871-901), THOMAS HUGHES, JOHN R. GREEN

Henry the Fowler Founds the Saxon Line of German Kings, Origin of the German Burghers or Middle Classes (A.D. 911-936), WOLFGANG MENZEL

Conquest of Egypt by the Fatimites (A.D. 969), STANLEY LANE-POOLE

Growth and Decadence of Chivalry (10th to 15th Century), LÉON GAUTIER

Conversion of Vladimir the Great, Introduction of Christianity into Russia (A.D. 988-1015), A. N. MOURAVIEFF

Leif Ericson Discovers America (A.D. 1000), CHARLES C. RAFN, SAGA OF ERIC THE RED

Mahometans In India, Bloody Invasions under Mahmud (A.D. 1000), ALEXANDER DOW

Canute Becomes King of England (A.D. 1017), DAVID HUME

Henry III Deposes the Popes (A.D. 1048), The German Empire Controls the Papacy, FERDINAND GREGOROVIUS, JOSEPH DARRAS

Dissension and Separation of the Greek and Roman Churches (A.D. 1054), HENRY F. TOZER, JOSEPH DEHARBE

Norman Conquest of England, Battle of Hastings (A.D. 1066), SIR EDWARD S. CREASY

Triumphs of Hildebrand, "The Turning-point of the Middle Ages", Henry IV Begs for Mercy at Canossa (A.D. 1073-1085), ARTHUR R. PENNINGTON, ARTAUD DE MONTOR

Completion of the Domesday Book (A.D. 1086), CHARLES KNIGHT

Decline of the Moorish Power in Spain, Growth and Decay of the Almoravide and Almohade Dynasties (A.D. 1086-1214), S.A. DUNHAM

The First Crusade (A.D. 1096-1099), SIR GEORGE W. COX

Foundation of the Order of Knights Templars (A.D. 1118), CHARLES G. ADDISON

Stephen Usurps the English Crown, His Conflicts with Matilda, Decisive Influence of the Church (A.D. 1135-1154), CHARLES KNIGHT

Antipapal Democratic Movement, Arnold of Brescia, St. Bernard and the Second Crusade (A.D. 1145-1155), JOHANN A. W. NEANDER

Decline of the Byzantine Empire, Ravages of Roger of Sicily (A.D. 1146), GEORGE FINLAY

Universal Chronology (A.D. 843-1161), JOHN RUDD

AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE

The three centuries which follow the downfall of the empire of Charlemagne laid the foundations of modern Europe, and made of it a world wholly different, politically, socially, and religiously, from that which had preceded it. In the careers of Greece and Rome we saw exemplified the results of two sharply opposing tendencies of the Aryan mind, the one toward individualism and separation, the other toward self-subordination and union.

In the time of Charlemagne's splendid successes it appeared settled that the second of these tendencies was to guide the Teutonic Aryans, that the Europe of the future was to be a single empire, ever pushing out its borders as Rome had done, ever subduing its weaker neighbors, until the "Teutonic peace" should be substituted for the shattered "Roman peace," soldiers should be needed only for the duties of police, and a whole civilized world again obey the rule of a single man.

Instead of this, the race has