A History of Italy 476-1600

Henry Sedgwick

• Publisher: Jovian Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781531299835
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

In the year 476 an unfortunate young man, mocked with the great names of the founders of the City and of the Empire, Romulus Augustus, nicknamed Augustulus, was deposed from the throne of the Cæsars by a Barbarian general in the Imperial service, and the Roman Empire in Italy came to its end. This act was but the outward sign that the power of Italy was utterly gone, and that in the West at least the Barbarians were indisputably conquerors in the long struggle which they had carried on for centuries with the Roman Empire.That Empire, at the period of its greatness, embraced all the countries around the Mediterranean Sea; it was the political embodiment of the Mediterranean civilization. In Europe, to the northeast, it reached as far as the Rhine and the Danube; it included England. Beyond the Rhine and the Danube dwelt the Barbarians. Europe was thus divided into two parts, the civilized and the Barbarian: one, a great Latin empire which rested upon slavery, and was governed by a highly centralized bureaucracy; the other, a collection of tribes of Teutonic blood, bound together in a very simple form of society, and essentially democratic in character...

Table of contents

• THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE IN THE WEST (476 A. D.)
• THE OSTROGOTHS (489-553)
• THE LOMBARD INVASION (568)
• THE CHURCH (568-700)
• THE COMING OF THE FRANKS (726-768)
• CHARLEMAGNE (768-814)
• FROM CHARLEMAGNE TO NICHOLAS I (814-867)
• THE DEGRADATION OF ITALY (867-962)
• THE REVIVAL OF THE PAPACY (962-1056)
• THE STRUGGLE OVER INVESTITURES (1059-1123)
• TRADE AGAINST FEUDALISM (1152-1190)
• TRIUMPH OF THE PAPACY (1198-1216)
• ST. FRANCIS (1182-1226)
• THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE (1216-1250)
• THE FALL OF THE MEDIÆVAL PAPACY (1303)
• LAST FLICKER OF THE EMPIRE (1309-1313)
• A REVIEW OF THE STATES OF ITALY (ABOUT 1300)
• THE TRANSITION FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE RENAISSANCE
• THE INTELLECTUAL DAWN AFTER THE MIDDLE AGES (1260-1336)
• THE DESPOTISMS (1250-1350)
• THE CLASSICAL REVIVAL (1350)
• THE ILLS OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
• A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW (1350-1450)
• THE EARLY RENAISSANCE (1400-1450)
• THE RENAISSANCE (1450-1492)
• THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS (1494-1537)
• PAPAL MONARCHY (1471-1527)
• THE HIGH RENAISSANCE (1499-1521)
• ITALY AND THE CATHOLIC REVIVAL (1527-1563)
• THE CINQUECENTO (16th Century)