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TABLE OF CONTENTS
OF THE
TWELFTH VOLUME.
CHAP. LXV.
Elevation of Timour or Tamerlane to the Throne of Samar-
cand.-His Conquefts in Perfia, Georgia, Tartary,
Ruffia, India, Syria, and Anatolia.—His Turkish War.-
Defeat and Captivity of Bajazet.-Death of Timour.-
Civil War of the Sons of Bajazet.-Restoration of the
Turkish Monarchy by Mahomet the First.-Siege of Con-
ftantinople by Amurath the Second.
1410 4. Moufa
1403-1410. 3. Soliman
1413-1421. 5. Mahomet I.
1421-1451. Reign of Amurath II.
1421 Re-union of the Ottoman Empire
1402-1425. State of the Greek Empire
1422 Siege of Conftantinople by Amurath II.
1425-1448. The Emperor John Palæologus II.
Hereditary Succeffion and Merit of the Ottomans
Education and Difcipline of the Turks
Invention and Ufe of Gunpowder
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ib.
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CHAP.
CHAP. LXVI.
Application of the Eastern Emperors to the Popes.-Vifits to
the Weft, of John the First, Manuel, and John the
Second, Palæologus.-Union of the Greek and Latin
Churches, promoted by the Council of Bafil, and concluded
at Ferrara and Florence.-State of Literature at Con-
ftantinople.-Its Revival in Italy by the Greek Fugitives.-
Curiofity and Emulation of the Latins.
A. D.
1339 Embaffy of the Younger Andronicus to Pope
Benedict XII.
The Arguments for a Crufade and Union
1348 Negotiation of Cantacuzene with Clement VI.
1355 Treaty of John Palæologus I. with Innocent VI.
1369 Vifit of John Palæologus to Urban V. at Rome
1370 His Return to Conftantinople
Vifit of the Emperor Manuel
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69
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74
77
1400 To the Court of France
78
Of England
80
1402 His Return to Greece
81
Greek Knowledge and Descriptions
82
1402-1417. Indifference of Manuel towards the Latins
1417-1425. His Negotiations
1425-1437. Zeal of John Palæologus II.
Corruption of the Latin Church
86
87
88
89
90
91
1377-1429. Schifm
1409 Council of Pifa
92
1414-1418. Of Conftance
1431-1443. Of Bafil
Their Oppofition to Eugenius IV.
1434-1437. Negotiations with the Greeks
1437 John Palæologus embarks in the Pope's Gallies
1438 His triumphal Entry at Venice
into Ferrara
1438, 1439. Council of the Greeks and Latins at Ferrara
100
ΤΟΙ
and Florence
Negotiations with the Greeks
1438 Eugenius depofed at Bafil
1440 Their Return to Conftantinople.
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108
III
Re-union of the Greeks at Florence
113
tinople
1449 Final Peace of the Church
1300-1453. State of the Greek Language at Conftan-
Comparison of the Greeks and Latins
Revival of the Greek Learning in Italy
114
116
119
1339 Leffons of Barlaam
120
1139-1374. Studies of Petrarch
121
1360 Of Boccace
123
1360-1363. Leo Pilatus, firft Greek Profeffor at Flo-