Chapter II: Preface: To Second Edition

The author has to acknowledge much kind help in the revision of this second edition given him by the Rev. Dr. Bright, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History; by Mr. C. H. Turner, Fellow of Magdalen College; by the Rev. F. E. Brightman, of University College; and by the unwearied compiler of the index. They have materially improved the accuracy of the book by their suggestions.

_October 30, 1894._

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. ODOACER AND THEODORIC, 476-493, 1

II. THEODORIC KING OF ITALY, 493-526, 19

III. THE EMPERORS AT CONSTANTINOPLE, 476-527, 33

IV. CHLODOVECH AND THE FRANKS IN GAUL, 55
481-511,

V. JUSTINIAN AND HIS WARS, 528-540, 65

VI. JUSTINIAN—(_continued_), 540-565, 89

VII. THE EARLIER FRANKISH KINGS AND THEIR 111
ORGANISATION OF GAUL, 511-561,

VIII. THE VISIGOTHS IN SPAIN, 531-603, 128

IX. THE SUCCESSORS OF JUSTINIAN, 565-610, 145

X. DECLINE AND DECAY OF THE MEROVINGIANS, 158
561-656,

XI. THE LOMBARDS IN ITALY AND THE RISE OF 181
THE PAPACY, 568-653,

XII. HERACLIUS AND MOHAMMED, 610-641, 204

XIII. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE VISIGOTHS, 221
A.D. 603-711,

XIV. THE CONTEST OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE AND 235
THE CALIPHATE, 641-717,

XV. THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT MAYORS OF THE 256
PALACE, 656-720,

XVI. THE LOMBARDS AND THE PAPACY, 653-743, 272

XVII. CHARLES MARTEL AND HIS WARS, 720-41, 289

XVIII. THE ICONOCLAST EMPERORS—STATE OF THE 300
EASTERN EMPIRE IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY,
717-802,

XIX. PIPPIN THE SHORT—WARS OF THE FRANKS AND 322
LOMBARDS, 741-768,

XX. CHARLES THE GREAT—EARLY YEARS 335
768-785—CONQUEST OF LOMBARDY AND
SAXONY,

XXI. THE LATER WARS AND CONQUESTS OF CHARLES 357
THE GREAT, 785-814,

XXII. CHARLES THE GREAT AND THE EMPIRE, 369

XXIII. LEWIS THE PIOUS, 814-840, 383

XXIV. DISRUPTION OF THE FRANKISH EMPIRE—THE 405
COMING OF THE VIKINGS, 840-855,

XXV. THE DARKEST HOUR, 855-887. FROM THE 424
DEATH OF LOTHAIR I. TO THE DEPOSITION
OF CHARLES THE FAT,

XXVI. ITALY AND SICILY IN THE NINTH CENTURY, 446
827-924,

XXVII. GERMANY, 888-918, 468

XXVIII. THE EASTERN EMPIRE IN THE NINTH CENTURY, 478
802-912,

XXIX. THE END OF THE NINTH CENTURY IN WESTERN 496
EUROPE. CONCLUSION,

INDEX 519

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MAPS

NO. PAGE

1. The Perso-Roman Frontier under 91
Justinian,

2. The Frankish Kingdoms in 511, 112

3. The Frankish Kingdoms in 575, 160

4. Italy in 590, 189

5. The Asiatic Themes, 243

6. Saxony in the Ninth Century, 350

7. The Partition-Treaty of Verdun, 853, 410

8. Western Europe in 890, 444

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GENEALOGICAL TABLES

1. The Vandal Kings, 12

2. The Eastern Emperors, 457-518, 39

3. The House of the Merovings, 166

4. The Lombard Kings, 183

5. The House of Heraclius, 236

6. The Mayors of the Palace of the House of 260
St. Arnulf,

7. The Descendants of Charles the Great, 413

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APPENDIX.

Names and Dates of the Emperors at 515-517
Constantinople, the Ostrogothic and
Visigothic Kings, the Popes, and the
Caliphs,

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