| 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 — APOSTASYOF JULIAN — SETTLEMENT OF THE GOTHS. | [83] |
| FIFTH CENTURY. | |
| END OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE — FORMATION OF MODERN STATES — GROWTHOF ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITY. | [105] |
| SIXTH CENTURY. | |
| BELISARIUS AND NARSES IN ITALY — SETTLEMENT OF THE LOMBARDS — LAWSOF JUSTINIAN — BIRTH OF MOHAMMED. | [123] |
| SEVENTH CENTURY. | |
| POWER OF ROME SUPPORTED BY THE MONKS — CONQUESTS OF THEMOHAMMEDANS. | [141] |
| EIGHTH CENTURY. | |
| TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPES — THE EMPIRE OF CHARLEMAGNE. | [171] |
| NINTH CENTURY. | |
| DISMEMBERMENT OF CHARLEMAGNE’S EMPIRE — DANISH INVASIONOF ENGLAND — WEAKNESS OF FRANCE — REIGN OF ALFRED. | [193] |
| TENTH CENTURY. | |
| DARKNESS AND DESPAIR. | [219] |
| ELEVENTH CENTURY. | |
| THE COMMENCEMENT OF IMPROVEMENT — GREGORY THE SEVENTH — FIRSTCRUSADE. | [241] |
| TWELFTH CENTURY. | |
| ELEVATION OF LEARNING — POWER OF THE CHURCH — THOMASÀ-BECKETT. | [269] |
| THIRTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| FIRST CRUSADE AGAINST HERETICS — THE ALBIGENSES — MAGNACHARTA — EDWARD I. | [297] |
| FOURTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| ABOLITION OF THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLARS — RISE OF MODERNLITERATURES — SCHISM OF THE CHURCH. | [325] |
| FIFTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| DECLINE OF FEUDALISM — AGINCOURT — JOAN OF ARC — THE PRINTING-PRESS — DISCOVERYOF AMERICA. | [359] |
| SIXTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| THE REFORMATION — THE JESUITS — POLICY OF ELIZABETH. | [401] |
| SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| ENGLISH REBELLION AND REVOLUTION — DESPOTISM OF LOUIS THEFOURTEENTH. | [447] |
| EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. | |
| INDIA — AMERICA — FRANCE | [491] |
| INDEX | [527] |
[FIRST CENTURY.]
| Emperors. | ||||
| A.D. | ||||
| Augustus Cæsar. | ||||
| 14. | Tiberius. | |||
| 37. | Caius Caligula. | |||
| 41. | Claudius. | |||
| 54. | Nero. First Persecution of the Christians. | |||
| 68. | Galba. | |||
| 69. | Otho. Vitellius Vespasian. | } | ||
| 79. | Titus. | |||
| 81. | Domitian. Second Persecution of the Christians. | |||
| 96. | Nerva. | |||
| 98. | Trajan. | |||
Authors.
Livy, Ovid, Tibullus, Strabo, Columella, Quintus Curtius, Seneca, Lucan, Petronius, Silius Italicus, Pliny the Elder, Martial, Quinctilian, Tacitus.
Christian Fathers and Writers.
Barnabas, Clement of Rome, Hermas, Ignatius, Polycarp.