With Maps. Crown 8vo. PERIODS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY GENERAL EDITOR, ARTHUR HASSALL, M.A. STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD III. IV. V. 476-918. By C. W. C. OMAN, M.A., Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford. 7s. 6d. 918-1272. By T. F. TOUT, M.A., Professor of History at Victoria University, Man A. D. 1272-1494. A.D. 1494-1598. chester. By R. LODGE, M.A., Professor of History By A. H. JOHNSON, M.A., Historical A. D. 1598-1715. By H. O. WAKEMAN, M.A., Fellow of All Souls' College, and Tutor of Keble College, Oxford. 6s. VI. A.D. 1715-1789. By A. HASSALL, M.A., Student of VII. Christ Church, Oxford. A. D. 1789-1815. By H. MORSE STEPHENS, M. A., Balliol VIII. A.D. 1815-1878. By G. W. PROTHERO, D.Litt., Professor of History at Edinburgh University. AUTHOR'S PREFACE IN spite of the very modest scale on which this book has been written, I trust that it may be of some use to students of European History. Though there are several excellent monographs in existence dealing with various sections of the period 476-918, there is no continuous general sketch in English which covers the whole of it. Gibbon's immortal work is popularly supposed to do so, but those who have read it most carefully are best aware that it does not. I am not acquainted with any modern English book where the inquirer can find an account of the Lombard kings, or of the Mohammedan invasions of Italy and Sicily in the ninth century, or of several other not unimportant chapters in the early history of Europe. I am in hopes, therefore, that my attempt to cover the whole field between 476 and 918 may not be entirely useless to the reading public. I must acknowledge my indebtedness to two living authors, whose works have been of the greatest possible help to me in dealing with two great sections of this period, Doctor Gustav Richter, whose admirable collection of original authorities in his Annalen des Fränkischen Reichs makes such an excellent introduction to the study of Merovingian and Carolingian |
