THE THIRTEENTH

GREATEST OF CENTURIES

James J. Walsh

 

"Why take the style of these heroic times?

For nature brings not back the mastodon

Nor we those times; and why should any man

Remodel models?"

I. INTRODUCTION

II. UNIVERSITIES AND PREPARATORY SCHOOLS.

III. WHAT AND HOW THEY STUDIED AT THE UNIVERSITIES.

IV. THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS AND DISCIPLINE.

V. POST-GRADUATE WORK AT THE UNIVERSITIES.

VI. THE BOOK OF THE ARTS AND POPULAR EDUCATION.

VII. ARTS AND CRAFTS. GREAT TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

VIII. GREAT ORIGINS IN PAINTING.

IX. LIBRARIES AND BOOKMEN.

X. THE CID, THE HOLY GRAIL, THE NIBELUNGEN.

XI. MEISTERSINGERS, MINNESINGERS, TROUVERES, TROUBADOURS

XII. GREAT LATIN HYMNS.

XIII. THE THREE MOST READ BOOKS.

XIV. SOME THIRTEENTH CENTURY PROSE.

XV. ORIGIN OF DRAMA.

XVI. FRANCIS, THE SAINT. THE FATHER OF THE RENAISSANCE.

XVII. AQUINAS, THE SCHOLAR.

XVIII. LOUIS, THE MONARCH.

XIX. DANTE, THE POET.

XX. THE WOMEN OF THE CENTURY.

XXI. CITY HOSPITALS. ORGANIZED CHARITY.

XXII. GREAT ORIGINS IN LAW.

XXIII. JUSTICE AND LEGAL DEVELOPMENT.

XXIV. DEMOCRACY, CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM AND NATIONALITY.

XXV. GREAT EXPLORERS AND THE FOUNDATION OF GEOGRAPHY.

XXVI. GREAT BEGINNINGS OF MODERN COMMERCE.

APPENDIX So-called History.