FOUNDATION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE 



The Cambridge Medieval History. Planned hy J. B. Bury, M.J., Regius 

 Professor of Modern History. Edited i>y H. M. Gwatkin, M.A., and 

 J. P. JVhitney, B.D. Volume II, The Rise of the Saracens and the 

 Foundation of the Western Empire. 



Royal 8vo. pp. xxiv+Sgo. With a portfolio of maps. 

 Price 20J. net; to subscribers 15s. net 



This volume covers the stormy period of about three hundred years 

 from Justinian to Charles the Great inclusive. It is a time little known 

 to the general reader, and even students of history in this country seldom 

 turn their attention to any part of it but the conversion of the English. 

 Hence, English books are scarce — Dr Hodgkin's Italy and her Invaders is 

 the brilliant exception which proves the rule — and the editors have had 

 to rely more on foreign scholars than iji the former volume. Some, indeed, 

 of the chapters treat of subjects on which very little has ever been written 

 in English, such as the Visigoths in Spain, the organisation of Imperial 

 Italy and Africa, the Saracen invasions of Sicily and Italy and the early 

 history and expansion of the Slavs. 



The contents are as follows : 



'Justinian. The Imperial Restoration in the TVest (Professor C. Diehl). 

 Justinian s Government in the East (Professor C. Diehl). Roman Laiv (Dr 

 H. J. Roby). Gaul under the Merovingian Franks. Narrative of Events 

 (Professor C. Pfister). Gaul under the Merovingian Franks. Institutions 

 (Professor C. Pfister). Spain under the Fisigoths (Dr Rafael Altamira). 

 Italy under the Loynhards (Dr L. M. Hartmann). Imperial Italy and 

 Africa : Administration (Dr L. M. Hartmann). Gregory the Great (the 

 Ven. Archd. W. H. Hutton). The Successors of Justinian (N. H. Baynes). 

 Mahomet and Islam (Professor A. A. Bevan). The Expansion of the Saracens. 

 The East (Professor C. H. Becker). The Expansion of the Saracens. Africa 

 and Europe (Professor C. H. Becker). The Successors of HeracHus to 717 

 (E. W. Brooks). The Expansion of the Slavs (T. Peisker). Keltic 

 Heathenism in Gaul (Professor Camille Jullian). Keltic Heathenistn in 

 the British Isles (Professor Sir Edward Anwyl). Germanic Heathenism 

 (Miss B. Phillpotts). Conversion of the Kelts. Roman Britain. Ireland. 

 Scotland (the Rev. F. E. Warren). Conversion of the Teutons. The 

 English. Germany (the Rev. Professor J. P. Whitney). England (to 

 c. 800J and English Institutions (W. J. Corbett, M.A.). The Carlovingian 

 Revolution, and Frankish Intervention in Italy (Professor G. L. Burr). 

 Conquests and Imperial Coronation of Charles the Great (Dr G. Seeliger). 

 Foundations of Society (Origins of Feudalism) (Dr P. VinogradoflF). Legislation 

 and Administration of Charles the Great (Dr G. Seeliger). The Papacy, to 

 Charles the Great (the Rev. F. J. Foakes-Jackson). 



