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
_Cities_, answer to nations, 177, 178; 183;
contrasted with nations, 186-188;
their chief developement among Southern nations, 186;
difficulty of uniting, 187;
their position in Northern and Southern Gaul, 191, 192;
their history and position in modern Europe, 199-205;
their history in Germany, 200-205;
suppression of, 201-202.
_Civilis_, compared with Buonaparte, 151.
_Clermont_, Council of, 162.
_Colonies_, Greek, 14;
their relation to Macedonian conquests, 16;
their beginnings, 19;
their time of greatness, 23-26;
their extent, 24-26.
Condominium, survival of, 211.
_Conquest_, Roman and Teutonic compared, 85.
_Constance_, Peace of, compared with that of Westfalia, 139.
_Constantine the Great_, his changes at Rome, 74;
his foundation of Constantinople, ib.
_Constantine Palaiologos_, his death, 170;
compared with Leopold the First, 171.
_Constantinople_, its various names, 74;
Christian from the beginning, ib.;
its position compared with that of old Rome, 100-103;
never without a resident Emperor, 101;
its loss in 1204, 139;
its recovery, 142;
Latin Empire at, 145;
its position, 160;
taking of, May 29, 1453, 168-170;
Latin rites in Saint Sophia, 170.
_Convocation_, English, its analogy with Greek cities, 227, 228.
_Crete_, mention of in Homer, 19.
_Crusade_, _First_, 161, 162.
_Crusade_, _Fourth_, 164, 165.
_Cyprus_, rivalry of Greek and Phœnician in, 24;
Empire of, 143;
conquered by Richard, ib.
D.
_Dacia_, its conquest and cession, 77.
_Dante_, his doctrine of the Empire, 68;
his theory carried out in the East, 159.
_Departments_, French, their position, 210.
_Diocletian_, his changes, 73, 74; 86.
_Diôn Chrysostom_, his account of contemporary Greek commonwealths, 225-234;
value of his Orations, 231;
his speech to the Rhodians, 232;
his speech at Prusa, 233;
at Nikomêdeia, 234.
_Dionysios_, two sides of, 33.
_Diplomacy_, in the third century B.C., 37.
E.
_East_, growth of native powers in, in the first and second centuries B.C., 65.
_Eastern Emperors_, their religious character, 159.
_Eastern Empire_, in what sense Greek, 112-120;
in what sense Roman, 117-119;
its power of revival, 128;
use of the name, 129;
its calling, 130;
its wars with the Saracens, 135;
with the Turks, ib.;
practically ends in 1204, 136; 139-144;
its survival and fragments, 145;
its greatest days, 160;
its crusades, ib., 161.
_Eastern Question_, eternal, 5.
_Egypt_, early Greek knowledge of, 20;
its relations to Greece, 26;
Saracen conquest of, 133.
_Eleventh Century A.D._, its history, 135.
Ἕλλην, use of the name, 112; 140.
Empereur d’Allemagne et d’Autriche, title of, 149.
Empereur des Français, title of, 149.
_Emperor_, various uses of the name, 144.
_Emperor of the East_, title of, 143, 144.
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