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100 1 _aWilliams, Henry Smith,
_d1863-1943
245 1 4 _aThe historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 11
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Historians%27_History_of_the_World
500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-14
508 _aDavid Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The historians'' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 11…" by Henry Smith Williams is a historical compendium written in the early 20th century. This volume surveys the history of France from the later Carolingians to the death of Louis XIV, blending political narrative with religious, social, and cultural developments as distilled from numerous classic authorities. The opening of the volume recounts the collapse of Carolingian power under relentless Northmen raids and internal strife, portraying Charles the Bald’s weakness, the ferocity and tactics of the Vikings, and the famed pirate Hastings. It explains how the Edict of Mersen and the capitulary of Quierzy hastened the transformation of benefices into hereditary fiefs, birthing the feudal order and proliferating private castles. The siege of Paris (885–886) highlights civic resilience under Bishop Gozlin and Count Eudes against a vast Viking host, contrasted with imperial impotence, and foreshadows the rise of the Capetians. The narrative then traces Rollo’s investiture in Normandy, the fragmentation of royal authority, and the power plays of Robert, Rudolf, Héribert, and Hugh the Great, through Louis IV and Lothair, to the election of Hugh Capet and his early struggles with Charles of Lorraine—depicting a France where noble power eclipses the crown and the church often arbiters the realm. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: The Outlook Company, 1905
653 _aWorld history
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/historianshistor11will/page/n09
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77058
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