VIEW

OF

THE STATE OF EUROPE

DURING

THE MIDDLE AGES.

BY HENRY HALLAM, LL.D., F.R.A.S.,

FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.-VOL. II.

TWELFTH EDITION

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET,

1860,

The right of Translation is reserval.

H 428.18.20.5

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE LIBRARY OF
HENRY S. HOUSMAN
MARCH 11, 1940

LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,

AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER IV.

THE HISTORY OF SPAIN TO THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA.

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- House of

Kingdom of the Visigoths-Conquest of Spain by the Moors-Gradual

Revival of the Spanish Nation - Kingdoms of Leon, Aragon, Navarre,

and Castile successively formed - - Chartered Towns of Castile - Mili-

tary Orders - Conquest of Ferdinand III. and James of Aragon-

Causes of the Delay in expelling the Moors - History of Castile con-

tinued Character of the Government - Peter the Cruel

Trastamare - John II.- Henry IV. Constitution of Castile

National Assemblies or Cortes - Their constituent Parts-Right of

Taxation Legislation - Privy Council of Castile -Laws for the

Protection of Liberty -Imperfections of the Constitution — Aragon -

its History in the fourteenth and fifteenth Centuries — Disputed Suc-

cession-Constitution of Aragon-Free Spirit of its Aristocracy ·

Privilege of Union - Powers of the Justiza-Legal Securities . Illus-

trations Other Constitutional Laws Valencia and Catalonia

Union of two Crowns by the Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella ·

Conquest of Granada

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CHAPTER V.

HISTORY OF GERMANY TO THE DIET OF WORMS IN 1495

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Sketch of German History under the Emperors of the House of Saxony-

House of Franconia - Henry IV, · House of Suabia- Frederic Bar-

barossa - Fall of Henry the Lion - Frederic II. - Extinction of

House of Suabia - Changes in the Germanic Constitution-Electors

- Territorial Sovereignty of the Princes - Rodolph of Hapsburgh —

State of the Empire after his Time - Causes of Decline of Imperial

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