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THE MAKING OF EUROPE / EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY

From Hutton Webster's, Early European History (1917); edited for this on-line publication, by ELLOPOS

Em. Macron, Rediscovering the Path to Europe

 

Table of Contents - Page 8

XXII. THE RENAISSANCE

  * Meaning of the Renaissance   * Revival of Learning in Italy   * Paper and Printing   * Revival of Art in Italy   * Revival of Learning and Art beyond Italy   * The Renaissance in Literature   * The Renaissance in Education   * The Scientific Renaissance   * The Economic Renaissance

XXIII. GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY AND COLONIZATION

  * Medieval Geography   * Aids to Exploration   * To the Indies Eastward—Prince Henry and Da Gama   * The Portuguese Colonial Empire   * To the Indies Westward: Columbus and Magellan   * The Indians   * Spanish Explorations and Conquests in America   * The Spanish Colonial Empire   * French and English Explorations in America   * The Old World and the New

XXIV. THE REFORMATION AND THE RELIGIOUS WARS, 1517-1648 A.D.

  * Decline of the Papacy   * Heresies and Heretics   * Martin Luther and the Beginning of the Reformation in Germany, 1517-1522 A.D.   * Charles V and the Spread of the German Reformation, 1519-1556 A.D.   * The Reformation in Switzerland: Zwingli and Calvin   * The English Reformation, 1533-1558 A.D.   * The Protestant Sects   * The Catholic Counter Reformation   * Spain under Philip II, 1556-1598 A.D.   * Revolt of the Netherlands   * England under Elizabeth, 1558-1603 A.D.   * The Huguenot Wars in France   * The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 A.D.

XXV. ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND, 1603-1715 A.D.

  * The Divine Right of Kings   * The Absolutism of Louis XIV, 1661-1715 A.D.   * France under Louis XIV   * The Wars of Louis XIV   * The Absolutism of the Stuarts, 1603-1642 A.D.   * Oliver Cromwell and the Civil War, 1642-1649 A.D.   * The Commonwealth and the Protectorate, 1649-1660 A.D.   * The Restoration and the "Glorious Revolution," 1660-1689 A.D.   * England in the Seventeenth Century

APPENDIX—Table of Events and Dates

 

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IN PRINT

Cf. The Ancient Greece * The Ancient Rome
Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) * Western Medieval Europe * Renaissance in Italy