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...

It was a ‘truceless war’ which Justinian’s ambassador had denounced against the cringing Theodahad when he heard of the murder of Amalasuntha. And in truth all the schemings and machinations of the Byzantine...

            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...

            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...

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...

              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,...

            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...

Thomas Hodgkin's 'The Life of Charlemagne (Charles the Great)' provides readers with a comprehensive look at one of the most influential rulers in European history. The book combines historical accuracy...

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...

Thomas Hodgkin's 'The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest' is an insightful and meticulously researched account of the early history of England. Hodgkin's narrative is both...