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
_Goths_, their dealings with the Empire, 77-79;
their settlement in Gaul, 89;
their taking of Rome, 95;
their position in East and West, 99;
their settlement in Gaul and Spain, 123.
Græci, use of the name, 112.
_Gratian_, refuses the Pagan pontificate, 155.
_Greece_, its geographical character, 6;
its historic calling, 7;
its connexion with other Aryan lands, 7, 8;
its influence compared with that of Rome, 8-10;
its position towards the East, 11, 12;
its relations to Rome, 15;
various forms of its influence, 16;
its geographical boundary, 17;
two main periods of its influence, 21, 22;
its decline in the fourth century B.C., 32;
its influence in East and West, 34;
relations of Rome to, after the first Macedonian war, 54, 55;
its influence extended by Rome, 92, 93;
international law in its oldest times, 178;
in Macedonian times, 179;
highest developement of cities in, 186;
survival of Federal systems in, 225;
its position under Trajan, 229.
_Greece_, Greater, 14;
falls away from Greek life, 17;
its most brilliant time, 25.
_Greek_, use of the name, 113;
in the sixth century, 126, 127;
in the thirteenth, 140, 141.
_Greek cities_, their position under the Roman Empire, 239;
gradual extinction of their freedom, 239, 240.
_Greek language_, its history in the Eastern Empire, 115-117.
_Greek nation_, modern, its origin, 16.
_Greek studies_, their value, 9, 10.
_Greeks_, their relations to other nations, 13;
their geographical position, 17, 18;
their relation to Rome, 86;
their adoption of the Roman name, ib.
_Gregory the Great_, his letter to Phocas, 125; 158.
_Gregory the Seventh_, his career and death, 156, 157.
H.
_Hadriatic Sea_, Western boundary of permanent Greek life, 17.
_Hamilkar_, his exploits and those of his House, 48.
_Hannibal_, his character and historic position, 50-53.
_Hannibalian war_, its character, 50-52.
_Hansa_, its growth, 201;
its decline, 202;
its modern survival, 202-204.
_Henry the Fourth_, Emperor, his position at the time of the First Crusade, 162.
_Henry the Seventh_, Emperor, 132; 147.
_Heraclius_, his exploits, 129; 133.
_Herodotus_, his clear view of history, 18; 21.
_Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation_, 95; 111; 112.
_Homer_, his historic witness, 18-20.
I.
Imperator _and_ Imperator electus, 111.
_Imperial power_, its original nature, 69;
its slow growth, 73, 74.
_Innocent the Third_, his relation to the Fourth Crusade, 165.
_International law_, times of its importance, 177-180;
its difficulty, 177;
ceases under the Roman power, 180.
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