Originally published as a third edition in 1951, this volume discusses the development of Europe and its component states by focussing on events and institutions such as the monarchy, religious wars, the development of agriculture, feudalism, legal systems, chivalry and warfare, education and the arts and literature of the Middle Ages.
Originally published in 1937 and as a third edition in 1951, this volume discusses the development of Europe and its component states by focussing on events and institutions such as the monarchy, religious wars, the development of agriculture, feudalism, legal systems, chivalry and warfare, education and the arts and literature of the Middle Ages.
1.Europe at the End of the Fifteenth Century
2. The Italian Wars The
First Phase
3. France, Spain, and the House of Habsburg
4. The Reformation in
Germany
5. The Italian Wars The Second Phase
6. The Development of
Lutheranism in Germany
7. The End of the War Between France and Spain; The
Abdication o Charles V; Navarre and Savoy
8. Turkey and Christendom in the
Sixteenth Century
9. The Spread of Protestantism
10. The Counter-Reformation;
The Council of Trent; The Jesuits; The Inquisition
11. The Scandinavian
Kingdoms, and the Spread of Lutheranism Outside of Germany
12. A Note on
Russian History in the Sixteenth Century
13. The Old World and the New
14.
The Origin of the French Wars of Religion
15. The First Phase of the French
Wars of Religion
16. Spain and the Netherlands Under Philip II
17. The
European Crisis and the Massacre of saint Bartholomews Day
18. France and
the Netherlands From the Massacre to the Deaths of the Duke of Alenēon and
William the Silent
19. A Decision Reached in Western Europe: Spain, France,
and the Netherlands to 1598
20. Settlement of France Under Henry IV
21. The
End of the Century: Germany, France and Spain
22. Changes and Tendencies in
the Sixteenth Century.
C. W. Previté-Orton (18771947) was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge.