Thomas Hodgkin: 14 books

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS (abridged list) INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. THEODORIC'S ANCESTORS Ostrogoths and Visigoths — Nations forming the Gothic Confederacy — Royal family of the Amals — Gothic invasion in...

Flavius Belisarius was a general of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously. Belisarius led campaigns against the Vandals,...

            The century whose early years witnessed the death of Pope Gregory the Great, and the establishment of something like peaceful relations between the Empire and the Lombards in Italy, was one of a strangely mingled character. As far as Western Europe was concerned (perhaps we...

In the gradual transformation of the old world of classical antiquity into the world with which the statesmen of today must deal, no man played a greater part than Charles the Great, King of the Franks and Emperor of Rome. The sharp lines of demarcation which we often draw between period and period,...

            THE four invading nations whose history has been already related left no enduring memorial of their presence in Italy. The Visigoth, the Hun, the Vandal, the Ostrogoth failed to connect their names with even a single province or a single city of the Imperial land. What these...

            I have now to record the establishment of a Teutonic kingdom in Italy, which, more than any other of the new states arising on the ruins of the Roman Empire, promised to promote the happiness of the human race, which seemed likely to draw forth all that was noblest in the manhood...

            Pope Hadrian occupied the chair of St. Peter for twenty-three years, ten months, and seventeen days, a longer period than had fallen to the lot of any of  his predecessors, except the twenty-five years which tradition assigns to St. Peter himself. That part of his pontificate...

              The object of this history is to trace some of the changes by which classical Italy, the kernel of the Roman Empire, the center of government and law for the Western world, became that Italy of the Middle Ages, whose life was as rich in intellectual and artistic culture as...

            We have reached a decisive point in the history of Italy and its relations to the rest of Europe. The Visigoth dealt a mortal blow to the Roman State: the Hun and the Vandal mocked its dying agonies; the Ostrogoth tried, but tried in vain, to resuscitate its life, breathing...

              THERE is a race on Scythia’s verge extreme             Eastward, beyond the Tanais’ chilly stream.             The Northern Bear looks on no uglier crew :             Base is their garb, their bodies foul to view;            ...

Learned men, who had become my friends through conversations which we had had together, or benefits which I had bestowed upon them, sought to persuade me to draw together into one work the various utterances which it had been my duty to make, during my tenure of office, for the explanation of different...

Italy and her Invaders, consisting of eight volumes, was an expansive history of Italy from Valens to Charles the Great finished in 1899. This edition of Volume I, The Visigothic Invasion, has a linked table of contents.

The Lombards, also referred to as Longobards, were a Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin. By the 5th century the Lombards settled in the valley of the Danube where they subdued the Germanic Heruls and the Gepids. From the Danube region they conquered the Byzantine Italy in 568 under the leadership...

Italy and her Invaders, consisting of eight volumes, was an expansive history of Italy from Valens to Charles the Great finished in 1899. This edition of Volume VI, The Lombard Kingdom, has a linked table of contents.