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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.-EUROPEAN SOCIETY IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
Henry's divorce
Its difficulties
CHAPTER IV. THE REFORMATION TO THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH.
Accession of Henry VIII..
Catherine of Arragon
Anne Boleyn
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Sir Thomas More.
Thomas Cranmer.......
Thomas Cromwell
Elevation of Anne Boleyn
First steps of the Reformation.
Suppression of Monasteries
Ruin of the monks
Henry checks the Reformation
His domestic difficulties..........
53 Marriage of the Queen
55
Effect of persecution
55 Last years of Mary
Cruelties of Alva in the Netherlands 74 Persecution of Nonconformists
William of Orange
His military preparations
The Spanish Armada
Death of Philip II.
75 Commercial enterprise
75 Sir Walter Raleigh
76 Social advances..
CHAPTER VII.-PHILIP II. AND THE AUSTRIAN PRINCES OF SPAIN.
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CHAPTER VIII.-THE COUNTER REFORMATION AND THE JESUITS.
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spiritual despotism
The Pope's reasons for it
Their rapid extension
Increasing power
Their sacrifices
CHAPTER X.-THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIII.
Regency of Mary de Medici ............ 107 | Death of Richelieu
113
CHAPTER XI.-ENGLAND DURING THE REIGNS OF JAMES I. AND CHARLES I.
CHAPTER XII.—THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION, AND OLIVER CROMWELL.
CHAPTER XV.-LOUIS XIV. OF FRANCE.
Louis XIV., "the State"............... 167 | Madame de Montespan
170
Three periods in his reign.. ............ 167 Her pride and extravagance............ 170
The wealth he inherited
171