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An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages (375-814)
An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages - 375-814 Author:Ephraim Emerton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. THE ROMANS TO A.D. 375. Modern Works : Theodor Mommsen: History of Rome. 6 vols. Wilhelm Ihne: History of Rome. 5 vols. Lond. 1871. J. V... more ». Duruy: History of Rome and the Roman People from its origin to the establishment of the Christian Empire. Ed. J. P. Mahaffy. Trans, by Mr. Clarke and Miss Ripley. 6 vols. in 12 pts. Lond. 1884. Illus.Charles Merivale: History of the Romans under the Empire. 7 vols. in 4. N.Y. 1880. R. F. Leigh- ton : History of Rome. N. Y. Goldwin Smith: The Greatness of Rome. In his Lectures and Essays. 1881. A. Neander: The Emperor Julian and his Generation. Trans, by I. G. V. Cox. N.Y. 1850.L. Friedliinder: Sittengeschichte Roms. £th ed. 3 vols. 1881. The following numbers of the " Epoch " Series: Wilhelm Ihne: Early Rome. R. B. Smith : Rome and Carthage. A. H. Beesley: The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla. W. W. Capes: The Early Empire from Julius Caesar to Domitian. W. W. Capes: The Roman Empire of the second century, or The Age of the Antonines. The two peoples with whom we are to deal in this book are the Romans and the Germans, u,e Aryan branches of the Aryan or Indo-European race' race of men. There were eight principal branches of this race, five of which had their homes in Europe, and three in Asia. It is generally believed that at some very distant time, so far away that we have no record of it, these different branches all formed one people and livedsomewhere in Western Asia, between the valley of the Euphrates and the valley of the Indus. Then, still before any written history, the race moved away from its home, and one part of it passed westward, probably by way of the opening between the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea, into Europe; another remained settled in the Tigris-Euphrates valley; while...« less