- 1Author’s Preface
- 2Chapter I — Odoacer and Theodoric 476-493
- 3Chapter II — Theodoric King of Italy 493-526
- 4Chapter III — The Emperors at Constantinople 476-527
- 5Chapter IV — Chlodovech and the Franks in Gaul 481-511
- 6Chapter V — Justinian and His Wars A.D. 528-540
- 7Chapter VI — Justinian — (Continued) — 540-565 A.D.
- 8Chapter VII — The Earlier Frankish Kings and Their Organisation of…
- 9Chapter VIII — The Visigoths in Spain 531-603
- 10Chapter IX — The Successors of Justinian 565-610
- 11Chapter X — Decline and Decay of the Merovingians 561-656
- 12Chapter XI — The Lombards in Italy, and the Rise of the Papacy 568-653
- 13Chapter XII — Heraclius and Mohammed 610-641
- 14Chapter XIII — The Decline and Fall of the Visigoths A.D. 603-711
- 15Chapter XIV — The Contest of the Eastern Empire and the Caliphate 6…
- 16Chapter XV — The History of the Great Mayors of the Palace 656-720
- 17Chapter XVI — The Lombards and the Papacy 653-743
- 18Chapter XVII — Charles Martel and His Wars 720-41
- 19Chapter XVIII — The Iconoclast Emperors — State of the Eastern Empi…
- 20Chapter XIX — Pippin the Short — Wars of the Franks and Lombards 74…
- 21Chapter XX — Charles the Great — Early Years 768-785 — Conquest of…
- 22Chapter XXI — The Later Wars and Conquests of Charles the Great 785…
- 23Chapter XXII — Charles the Great and the Empire
- 24Chapter XXIII — Lewis the Pious 814-840
- 25Chapter XXIV — Disruption of the Frankish Empire — The Coming of th…
- 26Chapter XXV — The Darkest Hour — A.D. 855-887
- 27Chapter XXVI — Italy and Sicily in the Ninth Century (827-924)
- 28Chapter XXVII — Germany 888-918
- 29Chapter XXVIII — The Eastern Empire in the Ninth Century 802-912
- 30Chapter XXIX — The End of the Ninth Century in Western Europe. Conc…
- 31Appendix — Tables of Sovereigns
The Dark Ages, 476–918
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