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A history of Europe : from the invasions to the XVI century / Henri Pirenne ; with a new introduction to the American edition by Jan-Albert Goris ; [translated by Bernard Miall from the French of the 8th edition].

Title: A history of Europe : from the invasions to the XVI century / Henri Pirenne ; with a new introduction to the American edition by Jan-Albert Goris ; [translated by Bernard Miall from the French of the 8th edition].
Author: Pirenne, Henri, 1862-1935
Publication: New York : University Books, 1955 printing.

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xxii, 625 p.; 24 cm.

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History

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Includes index.

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committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / by Dr. Jan-Albert Goris -- Preface / by Jacques Pirenne -- Author's preface -- Book 1: The end of the Roman world in the west (to the Musulman invasions). I. The barbarian kingdoms in the Roman Empire ; II. Justinian : the Lombards ; III. The Musulman invasion -- Book 2: The Carolingian epoch. I. The church ; II. The Frankish kingdom ; III. The restoration of the empire in the west ; IV. Economic and social organization -- Book 3: Feudal Europe. I. The dissolution of the empire ; II. The division of Europe ; III. The feudality -- Book 4: The War of Investitures and the Crusade. I. The church ; II. The War of Investitures ; III. The crusade -- Book 5: The formation of the bourgeoisie. I. The revival of commerce ; II. The formation of the cities ; III. The growth of the cities and its consequences -- Book 6: The beginnings of the western states. I. England ; II. France ; III. The empire -- Book 7: The hegemony of the papacy and of France in the thirteenth century. I. The papacy and the church ; II. The papacy, Italy, and Germany ; III. France ; IV. Philip the Fair and Boniface -- Book 8: The European crisis (1300-1450) : the Avignon papacy, the great schism and the Hundred Years' War. I. General characteristics of the period ; II. The Hundred Years' War ; III. The empire, the Slav states and Hungary ; IV. Spain, Portugal, The Turks -- Book 9: The Renaissance and the Reformation. Introduction ; I. The transformation of social life from the middle of the fifteenth century ; II. The Reformation ; III. The European states from the middle of the fifteenth to the middle of the sixteenth century -- Note on errors in the translation.

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