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Página ii - Student of Christ Church, Oxford. The object of this series is to present in separate Volumes a comprehensive and trustworthy account of the general development of European History, and to deal fully and carefully with the more prominent events in each century.
Página 49 - Philip m.'s second surviving son, Charles of Valois, on condition that it should never be united to France. The offer was accepted in 1284, and in the next year Philip himself headed a great expedition against Aragon, which was dignified by the name of a crusade. The capture of the fortresses of Elna and Girona, both after an obstinate resistance, were the only successes of the campaign.
Página ii - THE object of this series is to present in separate Volumes a comprehensive and trustworthy account of the general development of European History, and to deal fully and carefully with the more prominent events in each century. The Volumes...
Página 471 - John 1i. proved to be the most successful and orderly part of his reign. The regency was shared between his mother and his uncle Ferdinand ; and so great was the respect inspired by the latter, that he might easily have supplanted his nephew with the general approval of the Castilians. But Ferdinand acted with perfect loyalty ; and after his elevation to the throne of Aragon in 1412, he continued to give honest and disinterested advice to his sister-in-law. Unfortunately, when John n. was old enough...
Página 354 - Parties in her turn was becoming more and more involved England, in those internal dissensions which developed into the Wars of the Roses. The personal quarrel between Gloucester and Cardinal Beaufort proved the origin of a lasting party struggle. After the treaty of Arras, Beaufort and his supporters had seen clearly that the conquest of France was impossible and had urged the conclusion of peace as the only means of preserving a part of the provinces acquired by Henry v. and Bedford. On the other...
Página 492 - The Greeks gloried in the name of Romans ; they clung to the forms of the imperial government without its military power; they retained the Roman code without the systematic administration of justice, and prided themselves on the orthodoxy of a Church in which the clergy were deprived of all ecclesiastical independence, and lived in a state of vassalage to the imperial Court. Such a society could only wither, though it might wither slowly
Página 470 - English from nearly the whole of their possessions in France (see p. 95). ,/But the betrayer had no better fortune than the betrayed. The departure of Peter's allies enabled Henry of Trastamara to return to Castile, and with French aid to win the battle of MontieL In a personal interview the two half-brothers came to blows, and Henry's dagger avenged the death of his murdered kinsfolk. The two surviving children of Peter and Maria Padilla, Constance and Isabella, had been left at Bordeaux, and were...
Página ii - Century. 1494-1598. By AH JOHNSON, MA, Historical Lecturer to Merton, Trinity, and University Colleges, Oxford. Period V— The Ascendancy of France. 1598-1715. By HO WAKEMAN, MA, late Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Página 488 - ... or to purchase them upon terms which drained the western countries of their all too scanty supply of the precious metals. A great prize was offered to the discoverers of a direct maritime connection with India, and the competition became more and The Ca e more keen. Portugal, thanks to Prince Henry, had route to been first in the race, and she deservedly won the India. prize. In 1486 Bartholomew Diaz reached Algoa Bay, having at last rounded the Cape, to which he gave the well-merited name of...
Página 125 - Schwiz, and the mountaineers of the lower valley, seeing the malice of the times, have solemnly agreed and bound ourselves by oath to aid and defend each other with all our might and main, with our lives and property, both within and without our boundaries, each at his own expense, against every enemy whatever who shall attempt to molest us, either singly or collectively.