The Chief Periods of European History Six lectures read in the University of Oxford in Trinity term, 1885

Part 18

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_Bithynia_, different position of its cities under Trajan, 233-238.

_Britain_, Roman influence in, 94; Continental, its origin, 89; Celtic elements preserved in, 93.

_Buonaparte_, Napoleon, his position and objects, 149-151.

_Burgundians_, their settlement in Gaul, 89; 123.

_Burgundy_, position of cities in, 191, 192; its separation from Aquitaine, 196; represented by Switzerland, 197, 198.

_Byzantine_, use of the name, 129.

C.

_Cæsar_, his work in Gaul, 61, 65.

_Capitular elections_, their analogy with Greek cities, 228.

_Carthage_, her beginnings, 24; the rival of Greece, 29; her wars in Sicily, 30; her rivalry and first war with Rome, 46, 47; strife of with Rome for Spain, 48, 49; her fall and new birth, 54.

_Catalaunian Fields_, battle of, 44.

_Catalogue_, the Homeric, its historic value, 18-20.

_Charles Martel_, his defeat of the Saracens, 134.

_Charles the Great_, effect of his coronation, 104; nature of his Empire, 106, 107; successor of Constantine the Sixth, 106; his position towards the East, 107, 108; his successors, 130.

_Charles the Fourth_, Emperor, his coronations, 147.

_Charles the Fifth_, last _Imperator_, 138; his coronation at Bologna, ib.; real source of his power, 139.

_Charles the Sixth_, Emperor, 152.

_Cherson_, its beginnings, 24; its relations to Rome, 84; Roman annexation of, 221-222.

_Chlodowig_, unites the Frankish kingdoms, 189.

_Christianity_, its relation to the Roman power, 67-69; its special rivalry with Mahometanism, 133.

_Cities_, answer to nations, 177, 178; 183; contrasted with nations, 186-188; their chief developement among Southern nations, 186; difficulty of uniting, 187; their position in Northern and Southern Gaul, 191, 192; their history and position in modern Europe, 199-205; their history in Germany, 200-205; suppression of, 201-202.

_Civilis_, compared with Buonaparte, 151.

_Clermont_, Council of, 162.

_Colonies_, Greek, 14; their relation to Macedonian conquests, 16; their beginnings, 19; their time of greatness, 23-26; their extent, 24-26.

Condominium, survival of, 211.

_Conquest_, Roman and Teutonic compared, 85.

_Constance_, Peace of, compared with that of Westfalia, 139.

_Constantine the Great_, his changes at Rome, 74; his foundation of Constantinople, ib.

_Constantine Palaiologos_, his death, 170; compared with Leopold the First, 171.

_Constantinople_, its various names, 74; Christian from the beginning, ib.; its position compared with that of old Rome, 100-103; never without a resident Emperor, 101; its loss in 1204, 139; its recovery, 142; Latin Empire at, 145; its position, 160; taking of, May 29, 1453, 168-170; Latin rites in Saint Sophia, 170.

_Convocation_, English, its analogy with Greek cities, 227, 228.

_Crete_, mention of in Homer, 19.

_Crusade_, _First_, 161, 162.

_Crusade_, _Fourth_, 164, 165.

_Cyprus_, rivalry of Greek and Phœnician in, 24; Empire of, 143; conquered by Richard, ib.

D.

_Dacia_, its conquest and cession, 77.

_Dante_, his doctrine of the Empire, 68; his theory carried out in the East, 159.

_Departments_, French, their position, 210.

_Diocletian_, his changes, 73, 74; 86.

_Diôn Chrysostom_, his account of contemporary Greek commonwealths, 225-234; value of his Orations, 231; his speech to the Rhodians, 232; his speech at Prusa, 233; at Nikomêdeia, 234.

_Dionysios_, two sides of, 33.

_Diplomacy_, in the third century B.C., 37.

E.

_East_, growth of native powers in, in the first and second centuries B.C., 65.

_Eastern Emperors_, their religious character, 159.

_Eastern Empire_, in what sense Greek, 112-120; in what sense Roman, 117-119; its power of revival, 128; use of the name, 129; its calling, 130; its wars with the Saracens, 135; with the Turks, ib.; practically ends in 1204, 136; 139-144; its survival and fragments, 145; its greatest days, 160; its crusades, ib., 161.

_Eastern Question_, eternal, 5.

_Egypt_, early Greek knowledge of, 20; its relations to Greece, 26; Saracen conquest of, 133.

_Eleventh Century A.D._, its history, 135.

Ἕλλην, use of the name, 112; 140.

Empereur d’Allemagne et d’Autriche, title of, 149.

Empereur des Français, title of, 149.

_Emperor_, various uses of the name, 144.

_Emperor of the East_, title of, 143, 144.

_Emperors_, joint reign of several, 75; pre-eminence of those in the East, ib.; rival claims of in East and West, 107, 108; contrast of in East and West, 120, 121; origin of their power, 212-214.

_Empire_, vague uses of the word, 155.

_Empire_, Eastern, _see_ Eastern Empire.

_Empire_, Roman, _see_ Roman Empire.

_Empire_, Western, _see_ Western Empire.

_Empires_, various Greek, in the fourteenth century, 143, 144.

_England_, its steps towards union, 188.

_Epeiros_, its relations to Greece, 13, 14; 25; plans of her kings in the West, 34; suggested by the Macedonian conquests, ib.; Empire of, 143.

Erbkaiser von Oesterreich, title of, 151.

_Euboia_, account of by Diôn Chrysostom, 231.

_Europe_, three marked periods in its history, 4; its geographical character, 6; its analogies in the earliest and latest times, 176.

F.

_Federal States_, examples of in the third century B.C., 36.

_Federations_, their long survivals in Greece, 225.

_Fifth Century A.D._, its character and relation to earlier times, 79; compared with the third century B.C., 81; sketch of its history, 122-124.

_Fifth Century B.C._, a time of Greek decline, 21; its effect on the Teutonic nations, 85-95.

_Finlay_, George, his view of the fifth century B.C., 21.

_France_, formation of, 91, 92; its growth, 190-192; position of cities in, 191.

_France_, Duchy of, its dismemberment, 190.

Francia, name of, 89; divisions of, 91.

_Frankfurt_, its commonwealth suppressed, 202.

_Franks_, their appearance in Gaul, 78; translation of the Empire to, 112; their advance in Gaul, 123; union of their kingdoms, 189; fourfold division of, 196.

_Frederick the Second_, Emperor, his crusade, 163; effects of his treatment by the Popes, ib.

_Frederick the Third_, Emperor, 138; 147.

_Free Cities_, hindrances to national growth, 193.

_French Empire_, 149-151.

_French language_, its formation, 190.

_French nation_, its origin, 91, 92; its formation, 190-192.

G.

_Gascons_, _see_ Basques.

_Gaul_, Cisalpine, Roman conquest of, 49; its Roman life, 61, 62; Teutonic settlements in, 87; how affected by the Teutonic invasions, 90, 91; Southern, Romance growth in, 91; its disunion, 189; national elements in, 195-197.

_Gauls_, their relation to Rome, 86; their adoption of the Roman name, 87.

_Gela_, its time of greatness, 25.

_George Maniakês_, his recovery of Syracuse, 135.

_German_, use of the name, 113.

_German Empire_, 153.

_Germans_, their invasions, 77; their relation to the Empire, ib.

_Germany_, its connexion with the Western Empire, 147; its disunion, 189; less divided than Italy, 193; position of cities in, 200-205.

_Ghibelline theory_, carried out in the East, 159.

_Gibbon_, Edward, extent of his history, 75.

Gothia, name of, 88.

_Goths_, their dealings with the Empire, 77-79; their settlement in Gaul, 89; their taking of Rome, 95; their position in East and West, 99; their settlement in Gaul and Spain, 123.

Græci, use of the name, 112.

_Gratian_, refuses the Pagan pontificate, 155.

_Greece_, its geographical character, 6; its historic calling, 7; its connexion with other Aryan lands, 7, 8; its influence compared with that of Rome, 8-10; its position towards the East, 11, 12; its relations to Rome, 15; various forms of its influence, 16; its geographical boundary, 17; two main periods of its influence, 21, 22; its decline in the fourth century B.C., 32; its influence in East and West, 34; relations of Rome to, after the first Macedonian war, 54, 55; its influence extended by Rome, 92, 93; international law in its oldest times, 178; in Macedonian times, 179; highest developement of cities in, 186; survival of Federal systems in, 225; its position under Trajan, 229.

_Greece_, Greater, 14; falls away from Greek life, 17; its most brilliant time, 25.

_Greek_, use of the name, 113; in the sixth century, 126, 127; in the thirteenth, 140, 141.

_Greek cities_, their position under the Roman Empire, 239; gradual extinction of their freedom, 239, 240.

_Greek language_, its history in the Eastern Empire, 115-117.

_Greek nation_, modern, its origin, 16.

_Greek studies_, their value, 9, 10.

_Greeks_, their relations to other nations, 13; their geographical position, 17, 18; their relation to Rome, 86; their adoption of the Roman name, ib.

_Gregory the Great_, his letter to Phocas, 125; 158.

_Gregory the Seventh_, his career and death, 156, 157.

H.

_Hadriatic Sea_, Western boundary of permanent Greek life, 17.

_Hamilkar_, his exploits and those of his House, 48.

_Hannibal_, his character and historic position, 50-53.

_Hannibalian war_, its character, 50-52.

_Hansa_, its growth, 201; its decline, 202; its modern survival, 202-204.

_Henry the Fourth_, Emperor, his position at the time of the First Crusade, 162.

_Henry the Seventh_, Emperor, 132; 147.

_Heraclius_, his exploits, 129; 133.

_Herodotus_, his clear view of history, 18; 21.

_Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation_, 95; 111; 112.

_Homer_, his historic witness, 18-20.

I.

Imperator _and_ Imperator electus, 111.

_Imperial power_, its original nature, 69; its slow growth, 73, 74.

_Innocent the Third_, his relation to the Fourth Crusade, 165.

_International law_, times of its importance, 177-180; its difficulty, 177; ceases under the Roman power, 180.

_Italy_, relations of its nations to the Greek cities, 31; help for its cities sought in Greece, 32-34; how affected by the Teutonic invasions, 90, 91; its position under Theodoric, 97, 98; reconquered by the Empire, 98; divided between the Empire and the Lombards, ib.; southern part remains Greek, ib.; developement of cities in, 186; its disunion, 189; 193; position of cities in, 191; its reunion, 193-195; its drawbacks, 194.

J.

_Janissaries_, 167.

_Jerusalem_, recovered by Frederick the Second, 163.

_Jews_, revival of their power under the Maccabees, 66; their mission in the world, ib.

_John Sobieski_, Vienna delivered by, 171.

_Joseph the Second_, Emperor, 152.

_Justinian_, closes the University of Athens, 85; his historic position, 126-128.

K.

_Kingship_, various forms of in the Polybian age, 36.

_Korkyra_, its position in Homeric times, 20; becomes Greek, 24.

_Kyrênê_, colonization of, 24.

L.

_Latin language_, its history in the Eastern Empire, 114-117.

Λατῖνοι, opposed to Ῥωμαῖοι, 141.

_Lectures_, scheme of, 204-206; given in America, 205.

_Leo the Isaurian_, beats back the Saracens, 134.

_Leopold the First_, Emperor, compared with Constantine Palaiologos, 171.

_Lesbos_, mention of in Homer, 19.

_Lewis the Second_, Emperor, his controversy with Basil the Macedonian, 108; his position in Italy, 130, 131.

_Lignitz_, defeat of the Mongols at, 161.

_Lübeck_, its coinage, 202.

_Lykia_, League of, 37; its history and constitution, 222, 223.

M.

_Macedonia_, its relations to Greece, 14.

_Macedonian Conquests_, effects of, 14, 15.

_Macedonian Emperors_, their work, 132, 133.

_Macedonian Wars_, character of the First, 51, 52.

_Magyars_, effects of their settlement and conversion, 94.

_Mahomet the Second_, his European position, 167.

_Mahometan history_, its date, 11.

_Mahometanism_, its special rivalry with Christianity, 133.

_Marcus_, his reign, 76.

_Maria Theresa_, 152.

_Marius_, Gaius, his work, 60.

_Massalia_, its time of greatness, 25; its two republican periods, 192.

_Maximilian_, Imperator electus, 138; his tomb, 147.

_Merwings_, end of, 158.

_Milêtos_, mention of in Homer, 19.

_Mogul Empire_, 150.

_Mykênê_, Empire of, 18.

N.

_Nations_, answer to cities, 177, 178; 183; definition of, 192, 193.

_Nikaia_, Sultans of, 135, 144, 145; Emperors of, 140; their recovery of Constantinople, 142; its position under Trajan, 234, 235.

_Nikêphoros_, Emperor, acknowledges the claim of Charles the Great, 108.

_Nikomêdeia_, its position under Trajan, 234, 235.

_Normandy_, settlement of, 190.

O.

_Odowakar_, his position and history, 96.

_Odysseus_, his relation to his overlord, 18.

_Olbia_, Diôn Chrysostom’s account of, 231.

_Olympiad_, First, a starting-point, 10, 11.

_Otto the Great_, Emperor, 131.

_Otto the Third_, Emperor, 131.

_Ottoman Turks_, their advance in Asia and Europe, 165-168.

P.

_Palaiologoi_, their Empire a survival of the old Empire, 142; their recovery of Peloponnêsos, ib.

_Panormos_, Phœnician colony, 24.

_Paris_, the centre of France, 191.

_Parthia_, Greek influence on, 15; its relations to Rome, 62.

_Patricians_, Teutonic, 105.

_Peloponnêsos_, recovered by the Palaiologoi, 142.

_Pergamon_, the model kingdom, 37; its relations to Rome, 56; dealings of Rome with, 218.

_Persia_, its historic position, 27-29; its alliance with Carthage, 30; its new birth and rivalry with Rome, 63.

_Persian Wars_, their nature, 21.

_Philip_, how looked on at Megalopolis, 32.

_Philip the Fifth_, his failure to help Hannibal, 51, 54.

_Phœnicia_, its history and relation to Greece, 12; 20; extent of its colonization, 24; 26; its older and newer cities, 29.

_Physical inventions_, their political effect, 183-185.

_Pippin_, Patrician, 105; recovers Septimania from the Saracens, 134; his unction, 158.

_Pliny_, his correspondence with Trajan, 225, 226; 233-239; his dealings with Apameia, 236; with Amisos, 237.

_Plutarch_, his account of contemporary Greek commonwealths, 225-230; his political precepts, 227-230.

_Poland_, Vienna delivered by, 171; share of the House of Austria in its partition, 172.

_Polybios_, preserves the non-Athenian tradition of Philip, 32; character of his age, 35; his experience compared with that of Thucydides, 35, 36.

_Pompeius Gnæus_, his work in the East, 61.

_Pontius Telesinus_, 61.

_Pontos_, Greek influence on, 15.

_Popes_, a survival of the Empire, 155; origin and growth of their power, 156-158; their encroachments in the East, 165; 170; chosen from Italians only, 182; their relations to the Austrian Emperors, 183.

_Pragmatic Sanction_, 152.

_Pressburg_, Treaty of, 149.

_Protected states_, their position, 224.

_Provence_, its commonwealth, 192.

_Provinces_, slow annexation of, 72, 73; position of different towns in, 215-216.

_Prusa_, speech of Diôn Chrysostom at, 232.

_Punic Wars_, an episode in European history, 49, 50.

_Pyrrhos_, his Hellenic position, 14; 17; his designs, 34; effects of his war with Rome, 45.

R.

_Ragusa_, its commonwealth suppressed, 203.

_Ravenna_, Emperors at, 157.

Respublica, use of the word, 125.

Rex Græciæ, Eastern Emperor so called, 108, 109.

_Rhodes_, mention of in Homer, 19; democracy of, 36; dealings of Rome with, 218; speech of Diôn Chrysostom at, 231, 232.

_Roger_, Count, his recovery of Sicily, 135.

_Roman_, use of the name, 43.

_Roman Church_, its boundaries, 181, 182.

_Roman Empire_, when did its decline begin? 75; its extension, 76; effect of the fifth century on, 79; its traditions kept on in the East, 79, 80; relations of its Eastern and Western divisions, 79-81; its enlargement under Charles, 105; 109, 110; its nature under Charles, 106, 107; its final division in 800, 108, 109; parted from the Roman nation, 110, 111; translation of, 112-114; its extent in the fifth century, 122; its reconquest in the sixth century, 124-126; advance of centralization in, 211; change from republic to empire, 212-214.

_Roman kingdom_, in Gaul, 123.

_Roman nation_, created by the Edict of Antoninus, 42; its growth, 70, 71; 73.

_Roman Senate_, acts as an international court, 57, 58.

_Romance languages_, their origin, 90.

_Romance nations_, their origin, 90-92; their relation to the Roman Church, 182.

Romani, use of the name, 73, 111.

_Romania_, Latin Empire of, 145; its style, 146.

_Rome_, her historic position, 3, 4; her epithet of “Eternal,” 4; her part in the Eastern Question, 5; her relation to Greece, 15; her early position, 26; her first dealings with Greeks, 31; her sudden entrance in the East, 35; 37; slowness of her second advance, 39-41; her first relations with Greece, 40, 41; importance of her geographical position, 41; her rule, the rule of a city, 42; her historic calling, 43; her relations to Gauls and Teutons, 43, 44; her growth in Italy, 44, 45; effects of her war with Pyrrhos, 45; her rivalry and first war with Carthage, 46, 47; strife of with Carthage for Spain, 48, 49; her establishment beyond the Hadriatic, 49, 50; how affected by the Hannibalian war, 50-53; her position in the East after the first Macedonian war, 54-55; her advance in the second century B.C., 55-59; her time of trial, 60, 61; her relations with Syria and Gaul, 61, 62; her calling in the East, 62, 63; her special rivalry with Persia, 63; her first dealings with Germany, 64; Christianity needful for its mission, 67; change from commonwealth to Empire, 69; its effect on the city and the province, 69, 70; lessening of her local importance, 73, 74; remains specially Pagan, 74; falls away from the Empire, 80; her relation to her allies, 82-85; their slow incorporation, 84, 85; extension of Greek influence by, 93; her influence extended by the Teutonic settlements, ib.; her influence beyond the Empire, 94; taken by the Goths, 95; never occupied by the Lombards, 98; her position compared with that of Constantinople, 100-102; absence of the Emperors from, 101; her relations to Mahometanism, 133; represented by the Popes, 164, 165; 181, 182; the world without Rome, 173-176; the world before and after Rome, 176; effect of her reunion with Italy, 194, 195; her position under the Popes, 194; gradual establishment of her power, 209; modern analogies to, ib.; nature of her power over her allies, 214-217; analogies with its internal constitution, 214; her treatment of her allies, 217, 218; comparison of her power in East and West, 239.

_Rome_, ROUM, Sultans of, 135; 144, 145.

_Rouman language_, its origin, 115.

_Roumans_, their relation to the Slavs, 103; growth of, 119.

_Rudolf of Habsburg_, King, not Emperor, 139.

_Russian Empire_, 153, 154.

Ῥωμαῖοι, use of the name, 73; 86; 117; 141; 146.

S.

_Samuel_, Bulgarian Tzar, 133.

_San Marino_, relations of, 217.

_Saxon Emperors_, their work, 130, 131; their wars with the Magyars, 161.

_Saxons_, first mentioned, 64.

_Scandinavia_, Roman influence in, 94.

_Scotland_, compared with Switzerland, 198.

_Second Century B.C._, advance of Rome in, 55-59; time of Barbarian revival, 62.

_Seleukid Kings_, their position, 36; their relations to Rome, 56, 57.

_Seljuk Turks_, their conquest, 166.

_Sentinum_, battle of, 44.

_Shires_, English, their position, 210.

_Sicily_, its relations to Greece, 14; falls away from Greek life, 17; Phœnician and Greek settlements in, 25; their warfare, 30; help for sought in Greece, 32-34; war of Rome and Carthage for, 47; its conquest by the Saracens, and recovery, 134-135; incorporated with Italy, 194.

_Sidonius Apollinaris_, 44.

_Sikans_, mention of in Homer, 20.

_Sikels_, mention of in Homer, 20.

_Simeon_, Bulgarian Tzar, 113.

_Sixth Century A.D._, its historical character, 124-126.

_Sixth Century B.C._, greatest time of free Hellas, 23.

_Slaves_, their relation to Rome, East and West, 94; their position compared with that of the Teutons, 100; their northern and southern divisions, ib.; their relations to the Eastern Empire, 102; 116; to the Roumans, 103; to the Western Church, 182.

_Spain_, her historic position, 48; strife of Rome and Carthage for, 49; Teutonic settlements in, 88; how affected by the Teutonic invasions, 91; character of its history, ib.; its conquest and recovery, 134.

_Stephen Dushan_, Servian Tzar, 113.

_Strabo_, his description of the Lykian League, 223.

_Suevians_, their settlement in Spain, 122.

_Sulla_, Lucius, his work, 61.

_Swabian Emperors_, their position, 148, 149; compared with the Austrian, ib.

_Switzerland_, represents Burgundy, 197, 198; compared with Scotland, 198; reproduces Achaia, 199; position of cities in, ib.; its German origin, 201; its Confederation contrasted with that of Germany, 203.

_Sybaris_, its time of greatness, 25.

_Syracuse_, its time of greatness, 25.

_Syria_, its position under Rome, 61; Saracen conquest of, 133.

T.

_Taras_, _Tarentum_, its time of greatness, 25.

_Tauromenion_, its long resistance, 134, 135.

_Teutonic nations_, their relation to the Roman Church, 181, 182.

_Teutonic race_, beginning of its threefold history, 64.

_Teutons_, Roman influence extended by their settlements, 93.

_Theodoric_, the East-Goth, 44; his earlier history, 80; 99; his position, 96, 97; 123, 124; his system dependent on himself alone, 97.

_Theodoric_, the West-Goth, 44.

_Theophilos_, Emperor, annexes Cherson, 222.

_Thessalonikê_, Empire of, 143.

_Third Century B.C._, 36, 37; compared with the fifth century A.D., 81.

_Thucydides_, his experience compared with that of Polybios, 35, 36.

_Trajan_, his reign, 75, 76; loss of his conquests, 77; his correspondence with Pliny, 225, 226; 233-239; his dealings with the provinces and allies, 226; with Nikomêdeia, 235; with Apameia, 236; with Amisos, 237; his respect for treaties, ib.

_Trebizond_, Empire of, 143.

_Tribes_, united into nations, 187; in England, 188; in Gaul, 189.

U.

_Unction_, practice of, 75; first use of at Rome, 105.

_United States_, its Federal system, 199.

V.

_Vandals_, their settlements, 88, 89; 122.

_Vercellæ_, battle of, 44.

_Vienna_, siege of in 1683, 171.

W.

_Western Emperors_, their Eastern wars, 161.

_Western Empire_, in what sense German, 112-116; becomes German, 130-132; practically ends with Frederick the Second, 136-138; its later character, 147-149.

_Westfalia_, Peace of, compared with that of Constance, 139.

Y.

_Year 407 A.D._, Teutonic invasion of Gaul in, 87; best beginning of modern history, 161, 162.

Z.

_Zama_, battle of, its effect, 53, 54.

_Zones of Greek Influence_, 14, 15.

Zu allen Zeiten Mehrer des Reichs, title of, 109.

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