HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION

THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V

WITH
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY IN EUROPE; FROM THE SUBVERSION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

BY

WILLIAM ROBERTSON

SECTION I.

View of the Progress of Society in Europe, with respect to interior Government, Laws, and Manners.

  The Storehouse of Nations.
  The Feudal System
  The Dark Age
  The Crusades
  The Rise of City Liberties
  The Rise of Parliaments
  Freedom for All
  Justice for All
  Abolishment of All Private Wars
  Prohibition on Trial by Judicial Combat
  The Right of Appeal
  The Canon Law
  The Revival of Roman Law
  The Spirit of Chivalry
  The Progress of Science and Literature
  The Progress of Commerce

SECTION II

View of the Progress of Society in Europe, with respect to the Command of the National Force requisite in Foreign Operations.

  History of Europe
  Revolution in the French Army
  Decline of the Feudal Aristocracy
  The Craddle of the Haupsburgs
  Charles VIII and the Invasion of Italy. 1494
  The Black Bands
  The League of Cambray

SECTION III

View of the Political Constitution of the principal States in Europe, at the commencement of the sixteenth Century
  The Pope's Claim of Universal Jurisdiction
  The Spiritual Supremacy and The Temporal Power of the Popes
  The Italian States. Venice. Florence. Naples. Milan.
  The Kingdom of France
  The German Empire
  The Empire of the Ottomans

Book 1
  The Fight of King Ferdinand for his Kingdom
  The Regency of Cardinal Ximenes
  The Proclamation of Charles I of Spain
  Charles V of Germany, King of the Romans
  The Spanish Reaction

Book 2
  Henry VIII, of the United Kingdoms
  Cardinal Wolsey and the Field of the Cloth of Gold. 
  Martin Luther and Leo X
  The Régime of the Church under the Medieval Popes
  Erasmus and the Invention of Printing
  The After-day of the Diet of Worms
  Europe at War

Book 3
  Kingdom of Spain. The Revolt of the Comuneros
  Padilla and the Junta
  Death of Padilla
  Germanadas. The End of the Spanish Revolution
  1523. Francis I and Charles duke of Bourbon
  1524. Luther's Reformation Progress

Book 4
  Pescara versus Bonnivet. On the road to Pavia
  The Battle of Pavia. February 24. 1525
  Francis I, the Golden Prisoner
  The Conspiracy of Morone
  The Treaty of Madrid, February 14, 1526
  The Peasant's Wars
  The Teutonic Roots of Prusia
  The Holy League
  The Sack of Rome
  The Battle of Mohacz

Book 5
  THE SIEGE OF MILAN
 
  FRANCIS VERSUS CHARLES.
  THE STORY OF ANDREA DORIA
  1529.]CAMBRAY: THE PEACE OF THE LADIES
  THE CONFESSION OF AUGSBURG
  LEAGUE OF SMALKALDE AND RETREAT OF SOLYMAN. 1532]
  HENRY VIII IS DECLARED GODHEAD
  THE KINGDOM OF THE ANABAPTISTS
  THE STORY OF THE BARBARROSA BROTHERS

Book 6
  FRANCIS I AND HIS ZEAL FOR RELIGION
  FRANCIS I AGAIN DEFEATED IN ITALY
  1536. STATE OF EUROPE: THE FOLLY OF THE KINGS
  THE RETREAT OF THE INVINCIBLE ARMY
  1537. THE MADNESS OF THE FRENCH KING
  1538. THE PEACE OF THE POPE
  THE STORY OF  THE MURDER OF THE DUKE OF FLORENCE
  1539. THE CALL FOR THE COUNCIL OF TRENT
  THE SPANISH PRIDE AT TEST
  STATES OF THE UNITED PROVINCES
  GROWTH OF THE ORDER OF THE JESUITS
  1541. THE DIET OF RATISBON
  STATE OF AFFAIRS IN HUNGARY
  THE DISASTER OF THE EXPEDITION AGAINST ALGIERS

Book 7
  THE MURDER OF THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR
  1543. CHARLES GET READY TO STRIKE BACK
  FRANCIS AND SOLYMAN
  THE REFORM MAKING ITS OWN WAY THROUGHT
  1544.THE DIET OF SPIRES
  PEACE OF CRESPY
  THE POPE, THE EMPEROR AND THE PROTESTANTS
  1545. IMPERIAL DIET OF WORMS
  Jan. 18. THE OPENING OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

Book 8
  Death of Martin LUTHER
  CONTROVERSY between ROME and the REFORMERS
  The ANTI-PROTESTANT LEAGUE on the road
  GCONFEDERATION of all the PROTESTANTS states
  1547. The VICTORY of the imperial FORCES
  GENOA. The Strange STORY of the insurrection of FIESCO

Book 9
  Death of Francis I
  The Battle of Muhlberg
  The Surrender of Wittemberg
  The Reduction of Saxony
  King Ferdinand and the Bohemian Rebels
  The Murder of the son of the Pope
  Trent in the waiting-room of the Station of History
  The Interim of the Emperor

Book 10
  The Case of Innocent the Ape
  The rise of Maurice of Saxony
  Character of Philip II
  The Siege of Magdeburg
  Revolution in Hungary
  New League against Charles
  Maurice’s manifesto
  History of the council of Trent
  The Treaty of Passau

Book 11
  The Siege of Metz
  Albert of Bradenburg and death of Maurice of Saxony
  The Story of Roxalana and Mustapha
  Mary of England and Philip of Spain
  The Siege of Sienna
  The recess of Augsburg
  The Court of Paul the Fourth
  1556.] Abdication of Charles V
  Philip the Second

Book 12
  1557] The retirement of Charles from the affairs of Power
  The Battle of St. Quintin
  The Peace of the Pope
  The Sagacity of Cosmo di Medici
  The Duke of Guise conquer Calais
  The Madness of the Pope Paul the Fourth
  The Road to the Peace of the Kings
  Death of Charles I of Spain and V of Germany
  The rise of Queen Elizabeth and the
  The Treaty of Chateau-Cambresis [Feb. 6, 1559]
  Conclusions

FINIS