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The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 07

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390,052 words · about 27 h 19 min to read

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English
Subjects
World history
Length
390,052 words · about 27 h 19 min
Sections
66 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (66)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. XI. THE HISTORY OF THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE about 1 min
  3. I. THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE EAST under 1 min
  4. Chapter I under 1 min
  5. Chapter II under 1 min
  6. Chapter III under 1 min
  7. Chapter IV under 1 min
  8. Chapter V under 1 min
  9. Chapter VI under 1 min
  10. Chapter VII about 1 min
  11. Chapter VIII under 1 min
  12. Chapter IX under 1 min
  13. Chapter X under 1 min
  14. Chapter XI under 1 min
  15. II. THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST under 1 min
  16. Chapter I about 1 min
  17. Chapter II about 1 min
  18. Chapter III under 1 min
  19. Chapter IV under 1 min
  20. Chapter V under 1 min
  21. Chapter VI under 1 min
  22. Chapter VII under 1 min
  23. Chapter VIII under 1 min
  24. Chapter IX about 24 min
  25. I. THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE EAST about 1 h 2 min
  26. I. THE REIGN OF ARCADIUS about 41 min
  27. II. REIGN OF THEODOSIUS THE YOUNGER TO THE ELEVATION OF JUSTINIAN about 59 min
  28. III. JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA about 1 h 37 min
  29. IV. THE LATER YEARS OF JUSTINIAN’S REIGN about 1 h 15 min
  30. V. REIGN OF JUSTIN II TO HERACLIUS about 1 h 20 min
  31. VI. HERACLIUS AND HIS SUCCESSORS about 1 h 4 min
  32. VII. LEO THE ISAURIAN TO JOANNES ZIMISCES about 1 h 31 min
  33. VIII. GLORY AND DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE about 1 h 56 min
  34. IX. THE LATIN EMPIRE about 50 min
  35. X. THE RESTORATION OF THE GREEK EMPIRE about 1 h 5 min
  36. XI. MANUEL II TO THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE about 1 h 8 min
  37. I. THE REIGN OF ARCADIUS under 1 min
  38. II. THE REIGN OF THEODOSIUS THE YOUNGER TO THE ELEVATION OF JUSTINIAN under 1 min
  39. III. JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA under 1 min
  40. IV. THE LATER YEARS OF JUSTINIAN’S REIGN under 1 min
  41. V. JUSTIN II TO HERACLIUS under 1 min
  42. VI. HERACLIUS AND HIS SUCCESSORS under 1 min
  43. VII. LEO THE ISAURIAN TO JOANNES ZIMISCES under 1 min
  44. VIII. THE GLORY AND DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE under 1 min
  45. IX. THE LATIN EMPIRE under 1 min
  46. X. THE RESTORATION OF THE GREEK EMPIRE under 1 min
  47. XI. MANUEL II TO THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE under 1 min
  48. II. THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST about 41 min
  49. I. ODOACER TO THE TRIUMPH OF NARSES about 2 h
  50. II. LOMBARD INVASION TO LIUTPRAND’S DEATH about 1 h 14 min
  51. III. THE FRANKS TO THE TIME OF CHARLES MARTEL about 1 h 37 min
  52. IV. CHARLES MARTEL TO CHARLEMAGNE about 54 min
  53. V. CHARLEMAGNE about 1 h 35 min
  54. VI. CHARLEMAGNE’S SUCCESSORS TO THE TREATY OF VERDUN about 40 min
  55. VII. THE BIRTH OF GERMAN NATIONALITY about 1 h 25 min
  56. VIII. OTTO THE GREAT AND HIS SUCCESSORS about 51 min
  57. IX. THE FRANCONIAN, OR SALIAN, DYNASTY about 1 h 12 min
  58. I. ODOACER TO THE TRIUMPH OF NARSES under 1 min
  59. II. LOMBARD INVASION TO LIUTPRAND’S DEATH about 1 min
  60. III. THE FRANKS TO THE TIME OF CHARLES MARTEL about 1 min
  61. IV. CHARLES MARTEL TO CHARLEMAGNE under 1 min
  62. V. CHARLEMAGNE under 1 min
  63. VI. CHARLEMAGNE’S SUCCESSORS TO THE TREATY OF VERDUN under 1 min
  64. VII. THE BIRTH OF GERMAN NATIONALITY under 1 min
  65. VIII. OTTO THE GREAT AND HIS SUCCESSORS under 1 min
  66. IX. THE FRANCONIAN, OR SALIAN, DYNASTY under 1 min

The opening of I. THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE EAST

INTRODUCTION

THE SCOPE, THE SOURCES, AND THE CHRONOLOGY OF LATER ROMAN HISTORY IN THE EAST

The period upon which we are now entering presents peculiar difficulties for the historian. The body politic under consideration is in some respects unique. Historians are not even agreed as to the name by which it should properly be designated. It is an empire having its capital at Constantinople; an empire not come suddenly into being in the year 395, at which point, for the sake of convenience, we are now taking up this history; but which is in reality nothing more or less than the continuation of that Roman Empire in the East, the affairs of which we left with the death of Theodosius. That emperor, as we have seen, held sway over an undivided Roman commonwealth. On his death the power that he had wielded passed to his two sons, one of whom nominally held sway in the East, the other in the West. The affairs of the Western division of the empire under Honorius and his successors have claimed our attention up to the time of the final overthrow of Rome in the year 476.

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