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CONTENTS OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME.
CHAP. LXV.
Elevation of Timour or Tamerlane to the Throne of Samarcand....His Con-
quests in Persia, Georgia, Tartary, Russia, India, Syria, and Anatolia
....His Turkish War.... Defeat and Captivity of Bajazet....Death of Ti-
mour.....Civil War of the Sons of Bajazet....Restoration of the Turkish
Monarchy by Mahomet the First....Siege of Constantinople by Amurath
the Second.
Application of the Eastern Emperors to the Popes....Visits to the West, of.
John the First, Manuel, and John the Second, Palæologus....Union of the
Greek and Latin Churches, promoted by the Council of Basil, and con-
cluded at Ferrara and Florence....State of literature at Constantinople....
Its Revival In Italy by the Greek Fugitives....Curiosity and Emulation
of the Latins.
1425...1437. Zeal of John Palæologus JI. ib. 1390...1415. Foundation of the Greek
Corruption of the Latin Church
1377...1429. Schism
1409 Council of Pisa
1414...1418. Of Constance
1431...1443. Of Basil'
60
ib.
Language in Italy by Manuel
Chrysoloras
60 1400...1500. The Greeks in Italy
Their Opposition to Eugenius IV. ib.
1434...1437. Negotiations with the
4
Cardinal Bessarion, &c.
62
Greeks
1737 John Palæologus embarks in the Pope's Gallies
93
95
CHAP. LXVII.
Schism of the Greeks and Latins....Reign and Character of Amurath_the
Second....Crusade of Ladislaus King of Hungary....His Defeat and
Death....John Huniades....Scanderbeg....Constantine Palæologus last Em-
peror of the East.
A. D.
Comparison of Rome and Con-
stantinople
1440...1448. The Greek Schism after
the Council of Florence
Zeal of the Orientals and Rus-
1456 His Defence of Belgrade and
CHAP. LXVIII.
Reign and Character of Mahomet the Second....Siege, Assault, and final
Conquest of Constantinople by the Turks....Death of Constantine Paleo-
logus.... Servitude of the Greeks....Extinction of the Roman Empire in
the East....Consternation of Europe....Conquests and Death of Mahomet
State of Rome from the Twelfth Century....Temporal Dominion of the
Popes....Seditions of the City....Political Heresy of Arnold of Brescia....
Restoration of the Republic.... The Senators....Pride of the Romans....
Their Wars....They are deprived of the Election and Presence of the
Popes, who retire to Avignon.....The Jubilee....Noble Families of Rome
....Feud of the Colonna and Ursini.
Authority of the Popes in Rome 170 1181...1185. Lucius III.
From Affection
171 1119...1124. Calistus II.
175
176
177
Character and Coronation of Petrarch.... Restoration of the Freedom and
Government of Rome by the Tribune Rienzi....His Virtues and Vices, his
Expulsion and Death.... Return of the Popes from Avignon...Great
Schism of the West....Re-union of the Latin Church....Last Struggles of
Roman Liberty....Statutes of Rome....Final Settlement of the Ecclesiasti-
cal State.