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CRISTO RAUL.ORG '

READING HALL

THE DOORS OF WISDOM

 

THE CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY

PLANNED BY J . B. BURY

 

VOLUME I.

THE CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEUTONIC KINGDOMS.A.D. 300-500

 

I.- CONSTANTINE AND HIS CITY

II.-THE REORGANISATION OF THE EMPIRE

III.-CONSTANTINE'S SUCCESSORS TO JOVIAN: AND THE STRUGGLE WITH PERSIA

IV.-THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY

V.-ARIANISM

VI.-THE ORGANISATION OF THE CHURCH

VII.-EXPANSION OF THE TEUTONS (To A.D. 378)

VIII.-THE DYNASTY OF VALENTINIAN AND THEODOSIUS THE GREAT

IX.-THE TEUTONIC MIGRATIONS, 378-412

X.-THE VISIGOTHS TO THE DEATH OF EURIC . THE FRANKS BEFORE CLOVIS

XI.-THE SUEVES, ALANS, AND VANDALS IN SPAIN, 409-429

XII.-THE HUNS: THE ASIATIC BACKGROUND. ATTILA

XIII.-ROMAN BRITAIN

XIV.-ITALY AND THE WEST, 410-476 

XV.-THE KINGDOM OF ITALY UNDER ODOVACAR AND THEODORIC

XVI.-THE EASTERN PROVINCES FROM ARCADIUS TO ANASTASIUS

XVII.-RELIGIOUS DISUNION IN THE FIFTH CENTURY. Nestorius

XVIII.- MONASTICISM

XIX.-SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY

XX.-THOUGHTS AND IDEAS OF THE PERIOD

XXI. EARLY CHRISTIAN ART

 

VOLUME II.

THE RISE OF THE SARACENS AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE, A.D. 500-800

 

 

VOLUME III.

GERMANY AND THE WESTERN EMPIRE

 

I. LOUIS THE PIOUS.

II. THE CAROLINGIAN KINGDOMS (840-877)

III. THE CAROLINGIAN KINGDOMS (877-918)

IV. FRANCE, THE LAST CAROLINGIANS AND THE ACCESSION OF HUGH CAPET (888-987)

V. FRANCE IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY.

VI. THE KINGDOM OF BURGUNDY.

VII. ITALY IN THE TENTH CENTURY.

VIII. HENRY I AND OTTO THE GREAT.

IX. OTTO II AND OTTO III.

X. THE EMPEROR HENRY II.

XI. THE EMPEROR CONRAD II.

XII. THE EMPEROR HENRY III.

XIII. THE VIKINGS.

XIV. THE FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND.

XV. ENGLAND FROM AD 954 TO THE DEATH OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR.

XVI. THE WESTERN CALIPHATE.

XVII. THE CHURCH FROM CHARLEMAGNE TO SYLVESTER II.

XVIII. FEUDALISM.

XIX. LEARNING AND LITERATURE TILL THE DEATH OF BEDE.

XX. LEARNING AND LITERATURE TILL POPE SYLVESTER II.

XXI. BYZANTINE AND ROMANESQUE ARTS.

 

VOLUME IV

THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE

(717-1453)

1.-LEO III AND THE ISAURIAN DYNASTY (717-802)

2.-FROM NICEPHORUS I TO THE FALL OF THE PHRYGIAN DYNASTY

3.-THE MACEDONIAN DYNASTY FROM 867 TO 976 A.D.

4.-THE MACEDONIAN DYNASTY FROM 976 TO 1057 A.D.

5.-THE STRUGGLE WITH THE SARACENS (717-1057)

6.-HISTORY OF ARMENIA

7.-THE EMPIRE AND ITS NORTHERN NEIGHBOURS

8.-THE RISE AND FALL OF THE FIRST BULGARIAN EMPIRE (679-1018)

9.-THE GREEK CHURCH: ITS RELATIONS WITH THE WEST UP TO 1054

10.-MUSLIM CIVILISATION DURING THE ABBASID PERIOD

11.-THE EARLIER COMNENI, ISAAC I (1057-4059), ALEXIUS I (1081-1118)

12.-THE LATER COMNENI. JOHN (1118-1143), MANUEL (1143-1180), ALEXIUS II (1180-1183), ANDRONICUS (1183-1185)

13-.VENICE

14.-THE FOURTH CRUSADE AND THE LATIN EMPIRE

15.-GREECE AND THE AEGEAN UNDER FRANK AND VENETIAN DOMINATION (1204-1571).

16.-THE EMPIRE OF NICAEA AND THE RECOVERY OF CONSTANTINOPLE

17.-THE BALKAN STATES. I. THE ZENITH OF BULGARIA AND SERBIA (1186-1355)

18.-THE BALKAN STATES. II. THE TURKISH CONQUEST (1355-1483)

19.-ATTEMPTS AT REUNION OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CHURCHES

20.-THE MONGOLS

21.-THE OTTOMAN TURKS TO THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE

22.-BYZANTINE LEGISLATION FROM THE DEATH OF JUSTINIAN (565) TO 1453.

23.-.THE GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE.

24.- BYZANTINE CIVILISATION.

 

VOLUME V

THE CONTEST BETWEEN EMPIRE AND PAPACY

 

I. THE REFORM OF THE CHURCH

II. GREGORY VII AND THE FIRST CONTEST BETWEEN EMPEROR AND PAPACY

III. GERMANY UNDER HENRY IV AND HENRY

IV. THE CONQUEST OF SOUTH ITALY AND SICILY BY THE NORMANS

V. THE ITALIAN CITIES TILL c. 1200.

VI. ISLAM IN SYRIA AND EGYPT, 750—1100

VII. THE FIRST CRUSADE.

VIII. THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM, 1099—1291

IX. THE EFFECTS OF THE CRUSADES UPON WESTERN EUROPE.

X. GERMANY, 1125—1152

XI. ITALY, 1125—1152

XII.FREDERICK BARBAROSSA AND GERMANY

XIII. FREDERICK BARBAROSSA AND THE LOMBARD LEAGUE

XIV. THE EMPEROR HENRY VI.

XV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DUCHY OF NORMANDY AND THE NORMAN CONQUEST OF ENGLAND

XVI. ENGLAND, 1087-1154.

XVII. ENGLAND: HENRY II.

XVIII. FRANCE: LOUIS VI AND LOUIS VII (1108—1180).

XIX. THE COMMUNAL MOVEMENT, ESPECIALLY IN FRANCE.

XX. THE MONASTIC ORDERS.

XXI. ROMAN AND CANON LAW IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

XXII. MEDIEVAL SCHOOLS TO c. 1300.

XXIII. PHILOSOPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

 

VOLUME VI

VICTORY OF THE PAPACY

I. INNOCENT III.

II. PHILIP OF SWABIA AND OTTO IV.

III. GERMANY IN THE REIGN OF FREDERICK II

IV. THE INTERREGNUM IN GERMANY.

V. ITALY AND SICILY UNDER FREDERICK II

VI. ITALY, 1230-1280.

VII. ENGLAND: RICHARD I AND JOHN

VIII. ENGLAND: HENRY III

IX. THE REIGNS OF PHILIP AUGUSTUS AND LOUIS VIII OF FRANCE

X. SAINT LOUIS

XI.  THE SCANDINAVIAN KINGDOMS UNTIL THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY

XII. SPAIN, 1034—1240.

XIII. (A)  BOHEMIA TO THE EXTINCTION OF THE PREMYSLIDS. (B) POLAND, 1050-1303. (C) HUNGARY, 1000—1301

XIV. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

XV. NORTHERN TOWNS AND THEIR COMMERCE.

XVI. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANISATION AND ITS FINANCIAL BASIS

XVII.  THE MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES

XVIII. POLITICAL THEORY TO c. 1300.

XIX. MEDIEVAL DOCTRINE IN THE LATERAN COUNCIL OF 1215

XX. HERESIES AND THE INQUISITION IN THE MIDDLE AGES c. 1000—1305.

XXI. THE MENDICANT ORDERS.

XXII. ECCLESIASTICAL AND MILITARY ARCHITECTURE

XXIII. THE ART OF WAR TO 1400

XXIV. CHIVALRY.

XXV. LEGENDARY CYCLES OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

 

VOLUME VII

DECLINE OF EMPIRE AND PAPACY

 

INTRODUCTION.

I. ITALY IN THE TIME OF DANTE

II. ITALY, 1313-1414

III GERMANY, 1273-1313

IV. GERMANY: LEWIS THE BAVARIAN

V. GERMANY: CHARLES IV

VI. BOHEMIA IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY5

VII. THE SWISS CONFEDERATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES

VIII. THE HANSA

IX. THE TEUTONIC ORDER

X. THE POPES OF AVIGNON AND THE GREAT SCHISM

XI. FRANCE: THE LAST CAPETIANS5

XII. FRANCE: THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR (TO 1380)

XIII. FRANCE: ARMAGNACS AND BURGUNDIANS (1380-1422)

XIV. ENGLAND: EDWARD I AND EDWARD II

XV. ENGLAND: EDWARD III AND RICHARD II

XVI. WYCLIF

XVII. WALES, 1066 TO 1485

XVIII. IRELAND TO 1315

XIX. SCOTLAND TO 1328

XX. SPAIN, 1252-1410

XXI. RUSSIA, 1015-1462

XXII. THE JEWS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

XXIII. MEDIEVAL ESTATES

XXIV. PEASANT LIFE AND RURAL CONDITIONS (c. 1100 TO c. 1500).

XXV. THE EARLY RENAISSANCE

XXVI. MEDIEVAL MYSTICISM

 

VOLUME VIII

THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES

 

THE EMPEROR SIGISMUND (1368 –1437)

I.THE COUNCILS OF CONSTANCE AND BASLE.

II. JOHN HUS.

III. BOHEMIA IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

IV. THE EMPIRE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

V. THE PAPACY AND NAPLES IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

VI. FLORENCE AND NORTH ITALY, 1414-1492.

VII. FRANCE: THE REIGN OF CHARLES VII AND THE END OF THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR.

VIII. FRANCE: LOUIS XI.

IX. THE KINGDOM OF BURGUNDY OR ARLES FROM THE ELEVENTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.<

X. THE LOW COUNTRIES.

XI. ENGLAND: THE LANCASTRIAN KINGS, 1399-1461

XII. ENGLAND: THE YORKIST KINGS, 1461-1485

XIII. IRELAND, 1315-c. 1485.

XIV. SCOTLAND, 1328-1488

XV. SPAIN, 1412-1516.

XVI. PORTUGAL IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

XVII. THE SCANDINAVIAN KINGDOMS DURING THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES.

XVIII. POLAND AND LITHUANIA IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES.

XIX. HUNGARY, 1301-1490.

XX. POLITICAL THEORY IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES.

XXI. THE ART OF WAR IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

XXII. MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, ASTROLOGY, AND ALCHEMY.

XXIII. EDUCATION IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES

XXIV. PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND THE ARTS

XXV. THE RENAISSANCE IN EUROPE

EPILOGUE

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THE STORY OF THE CHURCH OF EGYPT

being an outline of the history of the Egyptians under their successive masters from the Roman conquest until now

VOLUME 1. The coming of Caesar -- The coming of Christ -- The preaching of Mark -- One patriarch and seven emperors -- Nile tourists in the second century -- The first theological college -- Origen -- The persecution of Decius -- The persecution of Valerian -- St. Ammon and St. Anthony -- A struggle for freedom -- The era of martyrs -- The Arian controversy -- Heresy and schism -- Gregory and George of Cappadocia -- The return and death of Athanasius -- The suicide of the Egyptian nation -- The last Arian Bishop of Alexandriav.

 

 

VOLUME 2. The conquest of Egypt by the Fatimites -- The building of Cairo -- The persecution of El Hakim -- Shenouda and Christodulos -- Bedr El Jamal, the Armenian -- Effects in Egypt of the first Crusade -- The Schism of Mark ebn Kunbar -- The burning of Babylon -- The Kurdish conquest -- The reign of Saleh-ed-din -- Dissensions of the Egyptian and Abyssinian Churches -- The Crusades in Egypt -- An infamous patriarch -- St. Louis in Egypt -- The fate of a Moslem Queen -- Two invasions of the Soudan -- The destruction of the churches -- The longest persecution -- The Circassian slave-sultans -- The Ottoman conquest -- From bad to worse -- Influence of the reformation in Egypt -- Egypt in the seventeenth century -- M. De Millet in Egypt -- The tyranny of the Mameluke Beys -- Ali Bey -- The French Invasion -- Mohammed Ali -- The English occupation -- The Church of Egypt in the nineteenth century -- Social life and customs

 

THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY .

CONSTANTINE THE GREAT AND CHRSITIANITY

 

“ELVENCEDOR EDICIONES”

 

HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THEORY IN THE WEST/

LITERARY HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES. comprehending AN ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF LEARNING,f rom the close of the Reign of Augustus, to ITS REVIVAL IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. /

STORY OF THE LATIN AND TEUTONIC NATIONS (HISTORY OF EUROPE. 1494-1514)/