An Introduction to the History of Western Europe

by James Harvey Robinson

The Readings in European History, a manual now in preparation, and designed to accompany this volume, will contain comprehensive bibliographies for each chapter and a selection of illustrative material, which it is hoped will enable the teacher and pupil to broaden and vivify their knowledge. In the present volume I have given only a few titles at the end of some of the chapters, and in the footnotes I mention, for collateral reading, under the heading "Reference," chapters in the best available books, to which the student may be sent for additional detail. Almost all the books referred to might properly find a place in every high-school library.

J.H.R.

Columbia University,
January 12, 1903.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	The Historical Point of View	[1]
II	Western Europe before the Barbarian Invasions	[8]
III	The German Invasions and the Break-up of the Roman Empire	[25]
IV	The Rise of the Papacy	[44]
V	The Monks and the Conversion of the Germans	[56]
VI	Charles Martel and Pippin	[67]
VII	Charlemagne	[77]
VIII	The Disruption of Charlemagne's Empire	[92]
IX	Feudalism	[104]
X	The Development of France	[120]
XI	England in the Middle Ages	[133]
XII	Germany and Italy in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries	[148]
XIII	The Conflict Between Gregory VII and Henry IV	[164]
XIV	The Hohenstaufen Emperors and the Popes	[173]
XV	The Crusades	[187]
XVI	The Mediæval Church at its Height	[201]
XVII	Heresy and the Friars	[216]
XVIII	The People in Country and Town	[233]
XIX	The Culture of the Middle Ages	[250]
XX	The Hundred Years' War	[277]
XXI	The Popes and the Councils	[303]
XXII	The Italian Cities and the Renaissance	[321]
XXIII	Europe at the Opening of the Sixteenth Century	[354]
XXIV	Germany before the Protestant Revolt	[369]
XXV	Martin Luther and his Revolt against the Church	[387]
XXVI	Course of the Protestant Revolt in Germany, 1521–1555	[405]
XXVII	The Protestant Revolt in Switzerland and England	[421]
XXVIII	The Catholic Reformation—Philip II	[437]
XXIX	The Thirty Years' War	[465]
XXX	Struggle in England for Constitutional Government	[475]
XXXI	The Ascendency of France Under Louis XIV	[495]
XXXII	Rise of Russia and Prussia	[509]
XXXIII	The Expansion of England	[523]
XXXIV	The Eve of the French Revolution	[537]
XXXV	The French Revolution	[558]
XXXVI	The First French Republic	[574]
XXXVII	Napoleon Bonaparte	[592]
XXXVIII	Europe and Napoleon	[606]
XXXIX	Europe After the Congress of Vienna	[625]
XL	The Unification of Italy and Germany	[642]
XLI	Europe of To-day	[671]
List of Books		[689]
Index		[691]

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LIST OF MAPS

		PAGE
1	The Roman Empire at its Greatest Extent	[8–9]
2	The Barbarian Inroads	[26–27]
3	Europe in the Time of Theodoric	[31]
4	The Dominions of the Franks under the Merovingians	[37]
5	Christian Missions	[63]
6	Arabic Conquests	[71]
7	The Empire of Charlemagne	[82–83]
8	Treaty of Verdun	[93]
9	Treaty of Mersen	[95]
10	Fiefs and Suzerains of the Counts of Champagne	[113]
11	France at the Close of the Reign of Philip Augustus	[129]
12	The Plantagenet Possessions in England and France	[141]
13	Europe about A.D. 1000	[152–153]
14	Italian Towns in the Twelfth Century	[175]
15	Routes of the Crusaders	[190–191]
16	The Crusaders' States in Syria	[193]
17	Ecclesiastical Map of France in the Middle Ages	[205]
18	Lines of Trade and Mediæval Towns	[242–243]
19	The British Isles	[278–279]
20	Treaty of Bretigny, 1360	[287]
21	French Possessions of the English King in 1424	[294]
22	France under Louis XI	[298–299]
23	Voyages of Discovery	[349]
24	Europe in the Sixteenth Century	[358–359]
25	Germany in the Sixteenth Century	[372–373]
26	The Swiss Confederation	[422]
27	Treaty of Utrecht	[506–507]
28	Northeastern Europe in the Eighteenth Century	[513]
29	Provinces of France in the Eighteenth Century	[539]
30	Salt Tax in France	[541]
31	France in Departments	[568–569]
32	Partitions of Poland	[584]
33	Europe at the Height of Napoleon's Power	[614–615]
34	Europe in 1815	[626–627]
35	Races of Austro-Hungary	[649]
36	Europe of To-day	[666–667]

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