“大学生英语文库”是一套面向中国学生的英语系列读物，各本均为注释性读本。
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PART I The Beginnings of European Civilisation
1 The Greatness of Athens
2 The Greatness of Sparta
3 Greek Thought and Art
4 The Source of Rome’s Greatness
5 Rome’s Great Rival
6 Julius Caesar
7 The Roman Emperors
PART II The Middle Ages and the Rise of European Nationali—ties
8 Constantine and the Triumph of Christianity
9 The Coming of the Barbarians and Charles the Hammer
10 Charles the Great
11 Hildebrand：Pope Gregory VII
12 Frederick Barbarossa
13 Saladin and the Crusades
14 S．Francis and the Revival of Religion
15 S．Louis
16 Russia and the Tartar Invasion
17 The Growth of the Towns
18 The Hundred Years’War and Jeanne Darc
PART III Modern History
Introduction
19 The Greatness of Spain and Isabella of Castile
20 Christopher Columbus
21 Luther and the Reformation
22 The Revolt of the Netherlands and William the Silent．Prince of Orange
23 Henry IV．of France
24 The Thirty Years’War and Gustavus Adolphus
25 Louis XIV．of France
26 Peter the Great
27 Frederick the Great．King of Prussia
28 The French Revolution
29 Napoleon Bonaparte
30 Victor Emmanuel
31 Bismarck and German Unity