THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY. EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY. WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES. CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING SUPERVISING EDITOR ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D. LITERARY EDITORS CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D. JOHN RUDD, LL.D. DIRECTING EDITOR WALTER F. AUSTIN, LL.M. With a staff of specialists CONTENTS VOLUME V An Outline Narrative of the Great Events CHARLES F. HORNE Feudalism: Its Frankish Birth and English Development (9th to 12th Century) WILLIAM STUBBS Decay of the Frankish Empire Division into Modern France, Germany, and Italy (A.D. 843-911) FRANÇOIS P. G. GUIZOT Career of Alfred the Great (A.D. 871-901) THOMAS HUGHES JOHN R. GREEN Henry the Fowler Founds the Saxon Line of German Kings Origin of the German Burghers or Middle Classes (A.D. 911-936) WOLFGANG MENZEL Conquest of Egypt by the Fatimites (A.D. 969) STANLEY LANE-POOLE Growth and Decadence of Chivalry (10th to 15th Century) LÉON GAUTIER Conversion of Vladimir the Great Introduction of Christianity into Russia (A.D. 988-1015) A. N. MOURAVIEFF Leif Ericson Discovers America (A.D. 1000) CHARLES C. RAFN SAGA OF ERIC THE RED Mahometans In India Bloody Invasions under Mahmud (A.D. 1000) ALEXANDER DOW Canute Becomes King of England (A.D. 1017) DAVID HUME Henry III Deposes the Popes (A.D. 1048) The German Empire Controls the Papacy FERDINAND GREGOROVIUS JOSEPH DARRAS Dissension and Separation of the Greek and Roman Churches (A.D. 1054) HENRY F. TOZER JOSEPH DEHARBE Norman Conquest of England Battle of Hastings (A.D. 1066) SIR EDWARD S. CREASY Triumphs of Hildebrand "The Turning-point of the Middle Ages" Henry IV Begs for Mercy at Canossa (A.D. 1073-1085) ARTHUR R. PENNINGTON ARTAUD DE MONTOR Completion of the Domesday Book (A.D. 1086) CHARLES KNIGHT Decline of the Moorish Power in Spain Growth and Decay of the Almoravide and Almohade Dynasties (A.D. 1086-1214) S.A. DUNHAM The First Crusade (A.D. 1096-1099) SIR GEORGE W. COX Foundation of the Order of Knights Templars (A.D. 1118) CHARLES G. ADDISON Stephen Usurps the English Crown His Conflicts with Matilda Decisive Influence of the Church (A.D. 1135-1154) CHARLES KNIGHT Antipapal Democratic Movement Arnold of Brescia St. Bernard and the Second Crusade (A.D. 1145-1155) JOHANN A. W. NEANDER Decline of the Byzantine Empire Ravages of Roger of Sicily (A.D. 1146) GEORGE FINLAY Universal Chronology (A.D. 843-1161) JOHN RUDD AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE GREAT EVENTS