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THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS
CONTENTS
VOLUME V
An Outline Narrative of the Great Events,CHARLES F. HORNE
Feudalism: Its Frankish Birth and EnglishDevelopment (9th to 12th Century), WILLIAM STUBBS
Decay of the Frankish Empire Division intoModern France, Germany, and Italy (A.D. 843-911),FRANÇOIS P. G. GUIZOT
Career of Alfred the Great (A.D.871-901), THOMAS HUGHES, JOHN R. GREEN
Henry the Fowler Founds the Saxon Line ofGerman Kings, Origin of the German Burghers or Middle Classes (A.D.911-936), WOLFGANG MENZEL
Conquest of Egypt by the Fatimites (A.D.969), STANLEY LANE-POOLE
Growth and Decadence of Chivalry (10th to15th Century), LÉON GAUTIER
Conversion of Vladimir the Great,Introduction of Christianity into Russia (A.D. 988-1015), A. N.MOURAVIEFF
Leif Ericson Discovers America (A.D.1000), CHARLES C. RAFN, SAGA OF ERIC THE RED
Mahometans In India, Bloody Invasions underMahmud (A.D. 1000), ALEXANDER DOW
Canute Becomes King of England (A.D.1017), DAVID HUME
Henry III Deposes the Popes (A.D. 1048), TheGerman Empire Controls the Papacy, FERDINAND GREGOROVIUS,JOSEPH DARRAS
Dissension and Separation of the Greek andRoman Churches (A.D. 1054), HENRY F. TOZER, JOSEPH DEHARBE
Norman Conquest of England, Battle ofHastings (A.D. 1066), SIR EDWARD S. CREASY
Triumphs of Hildebrand, "The Turning-pointof the Middle Ages", Henry IV Begs for Mercy at Canossa (A.D.1073-1085), ARTHUR R. PENNINGTON, ARTAUD DE MONTOR
Completion of the Domesday Book (A.D.1086), CHARLES KNIGHT
Decline of the Moorish Power in Spain,Growth and Decay of the Almoravide and Almohade Dynasties (A.D.1086-1214), S.A. DUNHAM