Readings in Medieval and Modern History

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D. C. Heath & Company, 1917 - 388 sider

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Prohibitions
50
Civil and Criminal
51
Traditional Sayings
52
THE SAGA OF A VIKING 32 Olafs Early Career
56
Olaf as King of Norway
61
ALFRED THE GREAT 34 Alfreds Zeal for Study
65
Character and Virtues of Alfred
66
Alfreds Handbook
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Alfreds Administration of Justice PAGE 65 65 66 68
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WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR AND THE NORMANS IN ENG LAND 38 Negotiations of William and Harold
71
Landing of the Normans in England
72
The Battle of Hastings
74
English and Norman Customs
77
Williams Character
79
Death of William
80
MONASTIC LIFE IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY 44 The Choice of an Abbot
82
Samson Elected Abbot
85
Samsons Rule of the Monastery
86
Complaints against Samsons Rule
87
Appearance and Character of Abbot Samson
88
ST FRANCIS AND THE FRANCISCANS 49 Conversion of Friar Bernard
91
Friar Bernard in Bologna
94
Humility of St Francis
96
The Praise of Poverty
97
St Francis Preaches to the Birds
98
RICHARD THE LIONHEARTED AND THE THIRD CRUSADE 54 Personality of Richard
100
Capture of Acre
101
Richards Deeds in the Holy Land
102
CHAPTER PAGE XIII THE FOURTH CRUSADE AND THE CAPTURE OF CON STANTINOPLE
107
The Covenant with the Doge of Venice
108
The Doge Assumes the Cross
109
The Crusaders before Constantinople
110
Foundation of the Latin Empire
114
ST LOUIS
118
How St Louis Worshipped and did Justice I 20
122
EPISODES OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR
125
Battle of Crécy
126
Surrender of Calais
131
Battle of Poitiers
134
MEMOIRS OF A FRENCH COURTIER
138
The Divided State of Europe
141
A Description of Venice
143
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Death of Savonarola
147
MEDIEVAL TALES
150
The Eight Pennies
151
The Three Truths
153
The Hermit
155
The Laziest Son
157
The Basilisk
158
The Tale of a Penny
159
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Beowulf
167
82
172
A SCHOLAR OF THE RENAISSANCE
180
To Christian
184
II
185
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191
Attainder and Execution of the Earl of Strafford
251
John Hampden
253
Trial of King Charles I
254
Oliver Cromwell
257
Battle of Marston Moor
260
Battle of Naseby
261
Storming of Drogheda
262
Rejection of the Kingship
264
Dissolution of the Second Parliament
265
Cromwells Prayer
267
ENGLISH LIFE AND MANNERS UNDER THE RESTORATION
268
Trial and Execution of the Regicides
270
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271
The Great Plague in London
272
The Great Fire in London
273
LOUIS XIV AND HIS COURT
276
Louis XIV
277
Versailles and Marly
280
Court Life
281
THE ABORIGINES OF THE PACIFIC
285
The Natives of the Marquesas Islands
292
The Hawaiian Islanders
294
FRANCE ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION
297
Poor Cultivation of the Land
300
Extravagant Expenditures
301
Defective Administration of Justice
303
Signs of Impending Revolution
304
SCENES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
307
Opening of the Revolution
311
Trial and Execution of Louis XVI
315
The Reign of Terror
316
The 18th and 19th Brumaire
320
CHAPTER PAGE XXXII LETTERS AND PROCLAMATIONS OF NAPOLEON
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The Rise of Napoleon
325
Napoleon as Consul
327
Napoleon as Emperor
329
Decline and Fall of Napoleon
332
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335
Napoleons Will
337
NAPOLEON
339
Political Ideas
341
Personality
343
Place in History
344
BISMARCK AND THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY
348
The SchleswigHolstein Question
351
Peace with Austria
352
The Ems Telegram
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DIPLOMACY OF THE GREAT WAR
362
Dispatches between Kaiser and Tsar
365
The Attitude of England
368
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369
Speech of the German Chancellor
372
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377
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Side 276 - Street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord, what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.
Side 50 - It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces in prayer towards the east and the west, but righteousness is of him who believeth in GOD and the last day, and the angels, and the scriptures, and the prophets...
Side 277 - When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little ale-house on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there staid till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
Side 269 - Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in covenant with Thee through grace. And I may, I will, come to Thee, for Thy people. Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service...
Side 264 - He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and you for the liberty he fights for.
Side 271 - ... away from a miller and other company that took them for rogues ; his sitting at table at one place, where the master of the house, that had not seen him in eight years, did know him, but kept it private ; when at the same table there was one, that had been of his own regiment at Worcester, could not know him, but made him drink the King's health and said that the King was at least four fingers higher than he.
Side 260 - ... the want of custom. After he was confirmed and invested Protector by The humble petition and advice, he consulted with very few upon any action of importance, nor communicated any enterprise he resolved upon with more than those who were to have principal parts in the execution of it; nor to them sooner than was absolutely necessary.
Side 372 - RELIABLE information has been received by the German Government to the effect that French forces intend to march on the line of the Meuse by Givet and Namur.
Side 265 - I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town: and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men...
Side 377 - We are now in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no law. Our troops have occupied Luxemburg and perhaps are already on Belgian soil. Gentlemen, that is contrary to the dictates of international law. It is true that the French Government has declared at Brussels that France is willing to respect the neutrality of Belgium, as long as her opponent respects it.

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