VIEW

OF

THE STATE OF EUROPE

DURING

THE MIDDLE AGES.

BY HENRY HALLAM, LL.D., F.R.A.S.,

FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

NEW YORK:

W. J. WIDDLETON, PUBLISHER.

1872.

e pleasing and instructive parts of this been my object to avoid the dry compolaiming, with what spirit and freedom I ine rather than a miniature, to suppress all not appear essentially concatenated with ative of important conclusions. But as the ument and constitutional laws which prevailed ntries of Europe, and especially in England, ve been less fully dwelt upon in former works ription than military or civil transactions, while leserving of far more attention, I have taken pains true representation of them, and in every instance out the sources from which the reader may derive mplete and original information.

thing can be farther from my wishes than that the fol

pages should be judged according to the critical laws istorical composition. Tried in such a balance they uld be eminently defective. The limited extent of this compared with the subjects it embraces, as well as its