قراءة كتاب The Eighteen Christian Centuries
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THE
Eighteen Christian Centuries.
BY
THE REV. JAMES WHITE,
AUTHOR OF A “HISTORY OF FRANCE.”
With a Copious Index.
FROM THE SECOND EDINBURGH EDITION.
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
549 & 551 BROADWAY.
1878.
NOTE BY THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS.
This valuable work, which has been received with much favour in Great Britain, is reprinted without abridgment from the second Edinburgh edition. The lists of names of remarkable persons in the present issue have been somewhat enlarged, and additional dates appended, thereby increasing the value of the book.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| FIRST CENTURY. | |
| THE BAD EMPERORS | 9 |
| SECOND CENTURY. | |
| THE GOOD EMPERORS. | 41 |
| THIRD CENTURY. | |
| ANARCHY AND CONFUSION — GROWTH OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. | 65 |
| FOURTH CENTURY. | |
| THE REMOVAL TO CONSTANTINOPLE — ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIANITY — APOSTASY OF JULIAN — SETTLEMENT OF THE GOTHS. | 83 |
| FIFTH CENTURY. | |
| END OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE — FORMATION OF MODERN STATES — GROWTH OF ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITY. | 105 |
| SIXTH CENTURY. | |
| BELISARIUS AND NARSES IN ITALY — SETTLEMENT OF THE LOMBARDS — LAWS OF JUSTINIAN — BIRTH OF MOHAMMED. | 123 |
| SEVENTH CENTURY. | |
| POWER OF ROME SUPPORTED BY THE MONKS — CONQUESTS OF THE MOHAMMEDANS. | 141 |
| EIGHTH CENTURY. | |
| TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPES — THE EMPIRE OF CHARLEMAGNE. | 171 |
| NINTH CENTURY. | |
| DISMEMBERMENT OF CHARLEMAGNE’S EMPIRE — DANISH INVASION OF ENGLAND — WEAKNESS OF FRANCE — REIGN OF ALFRED. | 193 |
| TENTH CENTURY. | |
| DARKNESS AND DESPAIR. | 219 |
| ELEVENTH CENTURY. | |
| THE COMMENCEMENT OF IMPROVEMENT — GREGORY THE SEVENTH — FIRST CRUSADE. | 241 |
| TWELFTH CENTURY. | |
| ELEVATION OF LEARNING — POWER OF THE CHURCH — THOMAS À-BECKETT. | 269 |
| THIRTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| FIRST CRUSADE AGAINST HERETICS — THE ALBIGENSES — MAGNA CHARTA — EDWARD I. | 297 |
| FOURTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| ABOLITION OF THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLARS — RISE OF MODERN LITERATURES — SCHISM OF THE CHURCH. | 325 |
| FIFTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| DECLINE OF FEUDALISM — AGINCOURT — JOAN OF ARC — THE PRINTING-PRESS — DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. | 359 |
| SIXTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| THE REFORMATION — THE JESUITS — POLICY OF ELIZABETH. | 401 |
| SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| ENGLISH REBELLION AND REVOLUTION — DESPOTISM OF LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH. | 447 |
| EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| INDIA — AMERICA — FRANCE | 491 |
| INDEX | public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@44703@[email protected]#Page_527" class="pginternal" |