BY THE NATIONAL ALUMNI

CONTENTS

VOLUME VII

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_An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_, xiii
CHARLES F. HORNE

_Dante Composes the_ Divina Commedia _(A.D. 1300-1318)_, 1
RICHARD WILLIAM CHURCH

_Third Estate Joins in the Government of France (A.D.
1302)_, 17
HENRI MARTIN

_War of the Flemings with Philip the Fair of France
(A.D. 1302)_, 23
EYRE EVANS CROWE

_First Swiss Struggle for Liberty (A.D. 1308)_, 28
F. GRENFELL BAKER

_Battle of Bannockburn (A.D. 1314)_, 41
ANDREW LANG

_Extinction of the Order of Knights Templars
Burning of Grand Master Molay (A.D. 1314)_, 51
F. C. WOODHOUSE
HENRY HART MILMAN

_James van Artevelde Leads a Flemish Revolt
Edward III of England Assumes the Title of King of
France (A.D. 1337-1340)_, 68
FRANCOIS P. G. GUIZOT

_Battles of Sluys and Crecy (A.D. 1340-1346)_, 78
SIR JOHN FROISSART

_Modern Recognition of Scenic Beauty
Crowning of Petrarch at Rome (A.D. 1341)_, 93
JACOB BURCKHARDT

_Rienzi's Revolution in Rome (A.D. 1347)_, 104
RICHARD LODGE

_Beginning and Progress of the Renaissance (Fourteenth
to Sixteenth Century)_, 110
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS

_The Black Death Ravages Europe (A.D. 1348)_, 130
J. F. C. HECKER
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

_First Turkish Dominion in Europe
Turks Seize Gallipoli (A.D. 1354)_, 147
JOSEPH VON HAMMER-PURGSTALL

_Conspiracy and Death of Marino Falieri at Venice
(A.D. 1355)_, 154
MRS. MARGARET OLIPHANT

_Charles IV of Germany Publishes His Golden Bull
(A.D. 1356)_, 160
SIR ROBERT COMYN

_Insurrection of the Jacquerie in France (A.D. 1358)_, 164
SIR JOHN FROISSART

_Conquests of Timur the Tartar (A.D. 1370-1405)_, 169
EDWARD GIBBON

_Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages (A.D. 1374)_, 1