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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VIII

    The Arab-Byzantine Wars and the Early Middle Ages

    by T. Peisker, E.W. Brooks, Camile Jullian, F.E. Warren, W.J. Corbett ...
    The Arabs first invaded Asia Minor during the commotions of 641. In 642 a plan of Valentine for a combined attack on them was frustrated by his defeat; but Theodore and Procopius penetrated as far as Batnae, and an Armenian force occupied Amida and nearly reached Edessa before they were routed. In 643, Valentine having returned to Constantinople, the enemy again entered Asia Minor, and Arabissus ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IX

    Charles the Great and the Holy Roman Empire

    by Paul Vinogradoff, G.L. Burr, Gerhard Seeliger, F.G. Foakes-Jackson ...
    THE eighth century had hardly entered on its second half when the last of the long-haired Merovingians was thrust from the throne of the Franks, and Pepin the mayor of the palace hailed as king. The change seemed slight, for the new dynasty had served a long apprenticeship. For more than a century the descendants of Clovis had been mere puppets in a king's seat, while the descendants of St Arnulf, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XI

    The Holy Roman Empire Triumphant

    by C.W. Previte-Orton, Austin Poole, Edwin Holthouse, Caroline Ryley ...
    “THE future of the realm”, Conrad is said to have declared with his dying words, “lies with the Saxons”, and he bade his brother Everard to bear the royal insignia to Henry, the Saxon Duke, as the one man capable of restoring the glory of the German name. The union of Frank and Saxon had given the throne to Conrad on the death of Louis the Child; the same alliance was responsible for the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book X

    The Carolingian Empire and the Rise of France

    by Rene Poupardin, Louis Halphen ...
    IT was at his winter home at Doué, early in February 814, that Louis of Aquitaine received the news of his father's death, which had been immediately sent to him by his sisters and the magnates who had espoused his cause. It is a difficult matter to discern through the self-interested encomiums of biographers and the calumnies set afloat by political opponents, the real character of the man who ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VI

    Western Europe in the Dark Ages

    by Norman Baynes, Christian Pfister, Rafael Altamira, L.M. Hartmann ...
    AT the accession of Clovis, who succeeded his father Childeric about the year 481, the Salian Franks had advanced as far as the Somme. Between the Somme and the Loire the suzerainty of the Roman Empire was still maintained. The various Gallo-Roman cities preserved a certain independence, while a Roman official, by name Syagrius, exercised a kind of protection over them. Syagrius was the son of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book II

    The Triumph of Christianity

    by T.M. Lindsay, H.M. Gwatkin, C.H. Turner ...
    THE old or official religions of Greece and of Rome had lost most of their power long before Constantine first declared that Christianity was henceforth to be recognized as a religio licita and then proceeded to bestow the Imperial favor on the faith which his predecessors had persecuted. Hellenism had destroyed their influence over the cultivated classes, and other religions, coming from the East ... Read more

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  • Cambridge Medieval History: Germany and the Western Empire

    by J.B. Bury ...
    Cambridge Medieval History: Germany and the Western Empire is an expansive treatise on Western civilization after the fall of Rome. From 800 to 1000 A.D. ,the rise of the Franks, Germanic tribes, and the Viking invasions of Europe are all covered in great detail. A table of contents is included for easier navigation. ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Sir Thomas Malory (Delphi Classics)

    by Sir Thomas Malory, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 7 - Delphi Series Five
    First published in 1485, Sir Thomas Malory’s ‘Le Morte Darthur’ remains the most definitive work of Arthurian literature in English. This comprehensive eBook presents both the original Winchester and Caxton texts, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Velleius Paterculus (Illustrated)

    by Velleius Paterculus ...
    Series Book 98 - Delphi Ancient Classics
    The Roman historian Velleius Paterculus lived during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, serving as a military tribune and later as a cavalry officer and legatus in Germany and Pannonia. Written in a highly rhetorical style, his ‘Compendium of Roman History’ is a summary of Roman history from the mythical fall of Troy to AD 29. As Paterculus approaches his own times, he becomes much fuller in his ... Read more

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  • The Empire of Alexander the Great

    by John Mahaffy ...
    Most of the great changes in the world's history come about gradually and wise men can see them coming, for it is very hard to run counter to the nature of average men, and all great advances and degradations of society are the result of persistent causes; but a few times, since our records have been kept, there has arisen a single genius, who has done what no number of lesser men could accomplish ... Read more

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  • The History of Rome: Mommsen's Rome, volumes 1 to 5 in a single file, in English translation

    by Theodor Mommsen ...
    Mommsen's history of the Roman Republic in five volumes. These volumes cover from the founding of Rome up to the disintegration of the First Triumvirate (Caesar, Pompey, Crassus). The author cites dates in the Roman style, AUC, from the founding of the city in 753 BC. A table at the end shows modern-day equivalents. According to Wikipedia, Mommsen is "generally regarded as the greatest classicist ... Read more

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  • A People's History of the Civil War

    Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

    by David Williams ...
    "Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of American history in general." — Library JournalHistorian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated ... Read more

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