An Introduction to the History of Western Europe. James Harvey Robinson

Voigt, Hefele, Bezold, Janssen, Levasseur, Creighton, Pastor. In some cases, as in the opening of the Renaissance, the Lutheran Revolt, and the French Revolution, I have been able to form my opinions to some extent from first-hand material.

      My friends and colleagues have exhibited a generous interest in my enterprise, of which I have taken constant advantage. Professor E.H. Castle of Teachers College, Miss Ellen S. Davison, Dr. William R. Shepherd, and Dr. James T. Shotwell of the historical department of Columbia University, have very kindly read part of my manuscript. The proof has been revised by my colleague, Professor William A. Dunning, Professor Edward P. Cheyney of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Ernest F. Henderson, and by Professor Dana C. Munro of the University of Wisconsin. To all of these I am much indebted. Both in the arduous preparation of the manuscript and in the reading of the proof my wife has been my constant companion, and to her the volume owes innumerable rectifications in arrangement and diction. I would also add a word of gratitude to my publishers for their hearty coöperation in their important part of the undertaking.

      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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       Table of Contents

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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