CONTENTS

Bibliographical Note[x]
Chronological Table[xii]
I. Germany and the Empire after the Interregnum, 1273-1313[1]
II. Italy and the Papacy, 1273-1313[20]
III. France under the later Capets, 1270-1328[43]
IV. France under the early Valois, 1328-1380[66]
V. Lewis the Bavarian and the Avignon Popes, 1314-1347[98]
VI. Charles IV. and the Golden Bull[109]
VII. Rise of the Swiss Confederation[124]
VIII. Italy in the Fourteenth Century, 1313-1402[139]
IX. The Schisms in the Papacy and Empire, 1378-1414[182]
X. The Hussite Movement and the Council of Constance, 1409-1418[206]
XI. The Hussite Wars and the Council of Basel, 1419-1449[222]
XII. Milan and Venice in the Fifteenth Century, 1402-1494[243]
XIII. Naples and the Papal States in the Fifteenth Century[265]
XIV. Florence under the Medici[288]
XV. Burgundians and Armagnacs in France, 1380-1435[315]
XVI. Revival of the French Monarchy, 1435-1494[349]
XVII. Germany and the Hapsburg Emperors, 1437-1493[394]
XVIII. The Hanseatic League and the Scandinavian Kingdom[419]
XIX. The Teutonic Order and Poland[451]
XX. The Christian States of Spain[468]
XXI. The Greek Empire and the Ottoman Turks[494]
XXII. The Renaissance in Italy[515]
Appendix—Genealogical Tables—
A—The Succession in Bohemia[535]
B—The Succession in Tyrol[535]
C—The House of Hapsburg[536]
D—The House of Wittelsbach[537]
E—The House of Luxemburg[538]
F—The Later Capets in France[539]
G—The House of Valois[540]
H—The Duchy and County of Burgundy[541]
I—The First House of Anjou in Naples and Hungary[542]
K—The Second House of Anjou in Naples[543]
L—The House of Aragon in Sicily and Naples[544]
M—The Houses of Visconti and Sforza in Milan[545]
N—The Medici in Florence[546]
O—The Union of Kalmar[546]
P—The Palæologi[547]
Q—Castile[548]
R—Aragon[549]
S—Navarre[550]
T—Some European Connections of the House of Portugal[551]
Index[553]