Chapter II: Section I: The Germans and the Empire to 1073 1-81

1. Selections from the Germania of Tacitus, _ca._ 100 2
2. Procopius, Vandal war 11
3. Procopius, Gothic war 12
4. The Salic law, _ca._ 500 14
5. Selections from Gregory of Tours 26
6. The coronation of Pippin, 751 37
7. Einhard's Life of Karl the Great 38
8. The imperial coronation of Karl the Great, 800 48
9. General capitulary about the _missi_, 802 48
10. Selections from the Monk of St. Gall 51
11. Letter of Karl the Great to Baugulf, 787 55
12. Letter of Karl about the sermons of Paul the Deacon 56
13. Recognition of Karl by the emperors at Constantinople, 812 57
14. Letter of Karl to emperor Michael I, 813 58
15. Letter to Ludwig the Pious about a comet, 837 59
16. The Strassburg oaths, 842 60
17. The treaty of Verdun, 843. Annales Bertiniani 62
18. The treaty of Verdun. Regino 63
19. The treaty of Meersen, 870 64
20. Invasion of the Northmen, end of the ninth century 65
21. Invasion of the Hungarians, _ca._ 950 65
22. Dissolution of the empire. Regino 66
23. The coronation of Arnulf, 896. Regino 69
24. Rise of the tribal duchies in Germany, _ca._ 900. Saxony 69
25. Rise of the tribal duchies. Suabia 70
26. Henry I and the Saxon cities 71
27. The election of Otto I, 936 72
28. Otto I and the Hungarians, 955 75
29. The imperial coronation of Otto I, 962 78
30. The acquisition of Burgundy by the empire, 1018-32.
Thietmar of Merseburg 79
31. The acquisition of Burgundy. Wipo, Life of Conrad II 79
32. Henry III and the eastern frontier, 1040-43 80