This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman is a short survey of the first four centuries after the fall of Rome. The author writes of Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, who sought to impose order on a shattered Italy, of the rise of the Franks under Clovis, and of the resurgence of the Eastern Empire under Justinian and his general, Belisarius. At the close of the book, Charlemagne's descendants are wrangling for power among themselves, while, writes Masterman, from "the north came the Norsemen, ravaging and plundering along every river valley which their long ships could sail; from the south came the Saracens, the pirates of the Mediterranean, and ... a foe more fierce and implacable still appeared on the eastern frontier in the Magyars or Hungarians."
By : John Howard Bertram Masterman (1867 - 1933)
01 - Chapter 1: Introduction
02 - Chapter 2: The Empire in 476
03 - Chapter 3: The Rise of Theodoric
04 - Chapter 4: The Gothic Kingdom in Italy
05 - Chapter 5: The Rise of the Franks
06 - Chapter 6: Justinian
07 - Chapter 7: Benedict of Nursia and Columban
08 - Chapter 8: The Rise of Mohammedanism
09 - Chapter 9: The Lombards in Italy and the Rise of the Papacy
10 - Chapter 10: The Mayors of the Palace
11 - Chapter 11: Charles Martel
12 - Chapter 12: Pippin, King of the Franks
13 - Chapter 13: The Pope, the Lombards and the Franks
14 - Chapter 14: The Iconoclastic Emperors
15 - Chapter 15: Charles the Great and the Lombard Kingdom
16 - Chapter 16: The Saxon Wars
17 - Chapter 17: Charles, King of the Franks
18 - Chapter 18: Carolus Imperator
19 - Chapter 19: Law and Administration in the Empire
20 - Chapter 20: Alcuin and the Revival of Learning. John Scotus
21 - Chapter 21: The Charlemagne of Romance
22 - Chapter 22: The Reign of Louis the Pious
23 - Chapter 23: The Break-up of the Carolingian Empire
24 - Chapter 24: The Norsemen, the Saracens and the Magyars
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