The Dark Ages. David Hume

RUIN OF THE OSTROGOTHS

       THE VISIGOTHS AGAIN

       LEOVIGILD AND HIS SONS

       THE GOTHS BECOME CATHOLIC

       A PRIEST-RIDDEN KINGDOM

       THE STORY OF WAMBA

       THIRTY YEARS OF DECAY

       THE FALL OF THE VISIGOTHS

       CONCLUSION

       GOTHIC PERSONAL NAMES

       THE DARK AGES, BY CHARLES OMAN

       ODOACER AND THEODORIC 476-493

       THEODORIC KING OF ITALY 493-526

       THE EMPERORS AT CONSTANTINOPLE 476-527

       CHLODOVECH AND THE FRANKS IN GAUL 481-511

       JUSTINIAN AND HIS WARS A.D. 528-540

       JUSΤIΝIΑΝ—(CONTINUED)

       THE EARLIER FRANKISH KINGS AND THEIR ORGANISATION OF GAUL 511-561.

       THE VISIGOTHS IN SPAIN

       THE SUCCESSORS OF JUSTINIAN 565-610

       DECLINE AND DECAY OF THE MEROVINGIANS 561-656.

       THE LOMBARDS IN ITALY, AND THE RISE OF THE PAPACY 568-653

       HERACLIUS AND MOHAMMED 610-641

       THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE VISIGOTHS 603-711

       THE CONTEST OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE AND THE CALIPHATE 641-717

       THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT MAYORS OF THE PALACE 656-720

       THE LOMBARDS AND THE PAPACY 653-743

       CHARLES MARTEL AND HIS WARS 720-41

       THE ICONOCLAST EMPERORS—STATE OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY 717-802

       PIPPIN THE SHORT—WARS OF THE FRANKS AND LOMBARDS 741-768

       CHARLES THE GREAT—EARLY YEARS CONQUEST OF LOMBARDY AND SAXONY.

       THE LATER WARS AND CONQUESTS OF CHARLES THE GREAT 785-814

       CHARLES THE GREAT AND THE EMPIRE

       LEWIS THE PIOUS 814-840

       DISRUPTION OF THE FRANKISH EMPIRE—THE COMING OF THE VIKINGS 840-855

       THE DARKEST HOUR—A.D. 855-887 FROM THE DEATH OF LOTHAIR I. TO THE DEPOSITION OF CHARLES THE FAT

       ITALY AND SICILY IN THE NINTH CENTURY (827-924)

       GERMANY 888-918

       THE EASTERN EMPIRE IN THE NINTH CENTURY 802-912

       THE END OF THE NINTH CENTURY IN WESTERN EUROPE. CONCLUSION

       VISIGOTHS PILLAGE ROME, BY EDWARD GIBBON

       HUNS INVADE THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE; ATTILA DICTATES A TREATY OF PEACE, BY EDWARD GIBBON

       THE ENGLISH CONQUEST OF BRITAIN, BY JOHN GREEN & CHARLES KNIGHT

       ATTILA INVADES WESTERN EUROPE; BATTLE OF CHÂLONS, BY EDWARD CREASY & EDWARD GIBBON

       FOUNDATION OF VENICE, BY THOMAS HODGKIN & JOHN RUSKIN

       CLOVIS FOUNDS THE KINGDOM OF THE FRANKS: IT BECOMES CHRISTIAN, BY FRANCOIS GUIZOT

       PUBLICATION OF THE JUSTINIAN CODE, BY EDWARD GIBBON

       AUGUSTINE'S MISSIONARY WORK IN ENGLAND, BY VENERABLE BEDE & JOHN GREEN

       THE HEGIRA; CAREER OF MAHOMET: THE KORAN: AND MAHOMETAN CREED, BY WASHINGTON IRVING & SIMON OCKLEY

       THE SARACEN CONQUEST OF SYRIA, BY SIMON OCKLEY

       SARACENS CONQUER EGYPT; DESTRUCTION OF THE LIBRARY AT ALEXANDRIA, BY WASHINGTON IRVING

       EVOLUTION OF THE DOGESHIP IN VENICE, BY WILLIAM HAZLITT