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The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918

The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918

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Number of Chapters: 25

Length: 06 hours and 48 minutes

Language: English

This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) 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." - Summary by Pamela Nagami

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Ch. 1: Introduction (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 2: The Empire in 476 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 3: The Rise of Theodoric (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 4: The Gothic Kingdom in Italy (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 5: The Rise of the Franks (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 6: Justinian (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 7: Benedict of Nursia and Columban (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 8: The Rise of Mohammedanism (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 9: The Lombards in Italy and the Rise of the Papacy (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 10: The Mayors of the Palace (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 11: Charles Martel (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 12: Pippin, King of the Franks (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 13: The Pope, the Lombards and the Franks (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 14: The Iconoclastic Emperors (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 15: Charles the Great and the Lombard Kingdom (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 16: The Saxon Wars (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 17: Charles, King of the Franks (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 18: Carolus Imperator (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 19: Law and Administration in the Empire (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 20: Alcuin and the Revival of Learning. John Scotus (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 21: The Charlemagne of Romance (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 22: The Reign of Louis the Pious (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 23: The Break-up of the Carolingian Empire (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 24: The Norsemen, the Saracens and the Magyars (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 25: The Dark Ages (Pamela Nagami)
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