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A History of the Middle Ages; From the Overthrow of the Western Empire in 476 to the Commencement of the Crusades in 1096
Leonhard Schmitz
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-21.
ISBN 9781150646683
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1865 Original Publisher: Rivingtons Subjects: Middle Ages History / Europe / General History / Medieval Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Medieval Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Medieval Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER I. ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW KINGDOMS IN THE VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE. 1. General effects of the German invasions; 2. State of Christianity; 3. Italy and Odoacer; 4. The Ostrogoths and Theodoric the Great; 5. The Ostrogoths after the death of Theodorio ; 6. Gaul after the fall of the empire ; 7. Clovis; 8. The Suevi in Spain ; 9. The Visigoths ; 10. Britain under the Anglo-Saxons; 11. The kingdom of the Vandals ; 12. The kingdom of the Lombards; 13. Concluding remarks. 1. During the invasions of the barbarians who had overrun the fair provinces of south-western Europe, many of the monuments of ancient civilisation were destroyed, but the foundations were laid for a new and different state of society. The things which then died away, had been decaying before, but those which still contained vitality lived on, only entering into a new form of existence, absorbing and assimilating the fresh and vigorous elements which were then introduced. The change, therefore, which was produced among the Romans and Romanized nations, was indeed a revolution, but not a complete transformation, such as that which took place in Britain when conquered by the Germanic tribes ; for the conquering barbarians in most cases overspread the empire only like a thin stratum, while the great underlying mass of the populations remained very like what it had been before. Hence in Italy, Gaul, and Spain, the Latin language continued to b
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