The Chief Periods of European History: Six lectures read in the University of Oxford in Trinity term, 1885Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
History
The Chief Periods of European History: Six lectures read in the University of Oxford in Trinity term, 1885
Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
Europe -- History
_Angles_, first mentioned, 64.
_Antalkidas_, Peace of, 28.
_Antioch_, its relation to older Greek cities, 23.
_Antoninus Caracalla_, effects of his edict, 42.
_Apameia_, dealings of Trajan and Pliny with, 236, 237.
_Aquæ Sextiæ_, battle of, 44; 60.
_Aquitaine_, position of cities in, 192;
its relations to France, 195;
its separation from Burgundy, 196.
_Arles_, capital of Southern Gaul, 85.
_Arminius_, his historic position, 64.
_Arnold_, Thomas, point chosen by for the ending of his History, 104.
_Asia Minor_, its historic position, 19.
_Athens_, her history mistaken for that of Greece, 21;
remains specially pagan, 74;
her relations to Rome, 84, 85;
her position under Trajan, 232.
_Aurelian_, his dealings with the Goths, 77.
_Austria_, the Frankish, effect of the rise of its Mayors, 91.
_Austrian Emperors_, their relations to the Popes, 183.
_Austrian Empire_, 151-152.
_Avignon_, Popes at, 157.
B.
_Bajazet_, Keiser of Roum, 145.
_Barbarians_, conversion of, 67.
_Basil the Macedonian_, his controversy with Lewis the Second, 108.
_Basil the Second_, Emperor, 132, 133.
Βασιλεύς, title of, 108.
_Basques_, Iberian elements preserved by, 93.
_Belisarius_, Roman consul, 125.
_Beneventum_, battle of, 45.
_Bithynia_, different position of its cities under Trajan, 233-238.
_Britain_, Roman influence in, 94;
Continental, its origin, 89;
Celtic elements preserved in, 93.
_Buonaparte_, Napoleon, his position and objects, 149-151.
_Burgundians_, their settlement in Gaul, 89; 123.
_Burgundy_, position of cities in, 191, 192;
its separation from Aquitaine, 196;
represented by Switzerland, 197, 198.
_Byzantine_, use of the name, 129.
C.
_Cæsar_, his work in Gaul, 61, 65.
_Capitular elections_, their analogy with Greek cities, 228.
_Carthage_, her beginnings, 24;
the rival of Greece, 29;
her wars in Sicily, 30;
her rivalry and first war with Rome, 46, 47;
strife of with Rome for Spain, 48, 49;
her fall and new birth, 54.
_Catalaunian Fields_, battle of, 44.
_Catalogue_, the Homeric, its historic value, 18-20.
_Charles Martel_, his defeat of the Saracens, 134.
_Charles the Great_, effect of his coronation, 104;
nature of his Empire, 106, 107;
successor of Constantine the Sixth, 106;
his position towards the East, 107, 108;
his successors, 130.
_Charles the Fourth_, Emperor, his coronations, 147.
_Charles the Fifth_, last _Imperator_, 138;
his coronation at Bologna, ib.;
real source of his power, 139.
_Charles the Sixth_, Emperor, 152.
_Cherson_, its beginnings, 24;
its relations to Rome, 84;
Roman annexation of, 221-222.
_Chlodowig_, unites the Frankish kingdoms, 189.
_Christianity_, its relation to the Roman power, 67-69;
its special rivalry with Mahometanism, 133.
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