_Battles of Sluys and Crecy (A.D. 1340-1346)_, 78 SIR JOHN FROISSART _Modern Recognition of Scenic Beauty Crowning of Petrarch at Rome (A.D. 1341)_, 93 JACOB BURCKHARDT _Rienzi's Revolution in Rome (A.D. 1347)_, 104 RICHARD LODGE _Beginning and Progress of the Renaissance (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century)_, 110 JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS _The Black Death Ravages Europe (A.D. 1348)_, 130 J. F. C. HECKER GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO _First Turkish Dominion in Europe Turks Seize Gallipoli (A.D. 1354)_, 147 JOSEPH VON HAMMER-PURGSTALL _Conspiracy and Death of Marino Falieri at Venice (A.D. 1355)_, 154 MRS. MARGARET OLIPHANT _Charles IV of Germany Publishes His Golden Bull (A.D. 1356)_, 160 SIR ROBERT COMYN _Insurrection of the Jacquerie in France (A.D. 1358)_, 164 SIR JOHN FROISSART _Conquests of Timur the Tartar (A.D. 1370-1405)_, 169 EDWARD GIBBON _Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages (A.D. 1374)_, 187 J. F. C. HECKER _Election of Antipope Clement VII Beginning of the Great Schism (A.D. 1378)_, 201 HENRY HART MILMAN _Genoese Surrender to Venetians (A.D. 1380)_, 213 HENRY HALLAM _Rebellion of Wat Tyler (A.D. 1381)_, 217 JOHN LINGARD _Wycliffe Translates the Bible into English (A.D. 1382)_ 227 J. PATERSON SMYTH _The Swiss Win Their Independence Battle of Sempach (A.D. 1386-1389)_ 238 F. GRENFELL BAKER _Union of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway (A.D. 1397)_, 243 PAUL C. SINDING _Deposition of Richard II Henry IV Begins the Line of Lancaster (A.D. 1399)_, 251 JOHN LINGARD _Discovery of the Canary Islands and the African Coast Beginning of Negro Slave Trade (A.D. 1402)_, 266 SIR ARTHUR HELPS _Council of Constance (A.D. 1414)_, 284 RICHARD LODGE _Trial and Burning of John Huss The Hussite Wars (A.D. 1415)_, 294 RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH _The House of Hohenzollern Established in Brandenburg (A.D. 1415)_, 305 THOMAS CARLYLE _Battle of Agincourt English Conquest of France (A.D. 1415)_, 320 JAMES GAIRDNER _Jeanne d'Arc's Victory at Orleans (A.D. 1429)_, 333 SIR EDWARD S. CREASY _Trial and Execution of Jeanne d'Arc (A.D. 1431)_, 350 JULES MICHELET _Charles VII Issues His Pragmatic Sanction Emancipation of the Gallican Church (A.D. 1438)_, 370 W. HENLEY JERVIS RENE F. ROHRBACHER