V. 1: A view of the progress of society in Europe : Section I: view of the progress of society in Europe with respect to interior government, laws, and manners : The effects of the Roman power on the state of Europe ; The irruption of the barbarous nations ; Their settlements in the countries they had conquered ; Decay of the Roman Empire ; Desolation occasioned by the barbarians ; Origin of the present political system of Europe ; The feudal system ; Its effects upon the arts, literature, and religion ; The crusades, and their effects upon society ; Growth of municipal institutions ; Emancipation of the peasantry ; Beginning of a regular administration of justice ; Trial by combat ; Appeals ; Ecclesiastical courts ; Discovery of the code of Justinian ; Chivalry ; Revival of learning ; Influence of commerce ; Italians the first merchants and bankers ; Rise of trade and manufactures among the cities of the Hanseatic League ; In the Netherlands ; In England --
Section II: view of the progress of society in Europe with respect to the command of the national force requisite in foreign operations : Improved state of society at the beginning of the fifteenth century ; The concentration of resources in European states ; The power of monarchs, their revenues and armies ; Affairs of different states at first entirely distinct ; Progress of combination ; Loss of continental territory by the English ; Effects upon the French monarchy ; Growth of standing armies, and of the royal prerogative under Louis XI ; His example imitated in England and in Spain ; The heiress of burgundy ; Perfidious conduct of Louis XI towards her ; Her marriage with Maximilian, Archduke of Austria ; Invasion of Italy by Charles VIII ; The balance of power ; Use of infantry in armies ; League of Cambray against Venice --
Section III: view of the political constitution of the principal states in Europe, at the commencement of the sixteenth century : Italy at the beginning of the sixteenth century ; The papal power ; Alexander VI and Julius II ; Defects in ecclesiastical governments ; Venice, its rise and progress, its naval power and its commerce ; Florence ; Naples and Sicily ; Contest for its crown ; Duchy of Milan ; Ludovico Sforza ; Spain, conquered by the Vandals and by the Moors, gradually re-conquered by the Christians ; Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella ; The royal prerogative ; Constitution of Aragon and of Castile ; Internal disorders ; "The Holy Brotherhood" ; France, its constitution and government ; The power of its early kings ; Government becomes purely monarchical, though restrained by the nobles and the parliaments ; The German empire ; Power of the nobles and of the clergy ; Contests between the popes and the emperors ; Decline of imperial authority ; Total change of government ; Maximilian ; The real power and revenues of the emperors, contrasted with their pretensions ; Complication of difficulties ; Origin of the Turkish Empire, its character ; The Janizaries ; Solyman --
History of Charles V : Book I : Birth of Charles V ; His hereditary dominions ; Philip and Joanna, his parents ; Birth of Ferdinand, his brother ; Death of Isabella ; Philip's attempts to obtain the government of Castile ; The regent Ferdinand marries a niece of the French king to exclude Philip and his daughter ; The Castilian nobility declare for Philip ; Philip and Joanna proclaimed ; Death of Philip ; Incapacity of Joanna ; Ferdinand made regent ; His acquisition of territory ; His death ; Education of Charles V ; Cardinals Ximenes and Adrian ; Charles acknowledged king ; Ximenes strengthens the royal power, is opposed by the nobles ; War in Navarre and in Africa ; Peace with France ; Charles visits Spain ; His ingratitude towards Ximenes ; Death of the latter ; Discontent of the Castilians ; Corruption of the King's Flemish favorites ; Reception of Charles in Aragon ; Death of the Emperor Maximilian ; Charles and Francis I competitors for the empire ; Views of the other reigning potentates ; Assembly of the electors ; The crown offered to Frederic of Saxony ; He declines in favor of Charles, who is chosen ; Discontent of the Spaniard ; Insurrections in Valencia ; The Cortes of Castile summoned to meet in Galicia ; Charles appoints regents, and embarks for the Low Countries --
Book II : Rivalry between Charles and Francis I, for the empire ; They negotiate with the Pope, the Venetians, and Henry VIII of England ; Character of the latter ; Cardinal Wolsey ; Charles visits England ; Meeting between Henry VIII, and Francis I ; Coronation of Charles ; Solyman the magnificent ; The Diet convoked at Worms ; The reformation ; Sale of indulgences by Leo X ; Tetzel ; Luther ; Progress of his opinions ; Is summoned to Rome ; His appearance before the Legate ; His appeals to a general council ; Luther questions the papal authority ; Reformation in Switzerland ; Excommunication of Luther ; Reformation in Germany ; Causes of the progress of reformation ; The corruption in the Roman church ; Power and ill conduct of the clergy ; Venality of the Roman court ; Effects of the invention of printing ; Erasmus ; The Diet at Worms ; Edict against Luther ; He is seized and confined at Wartburg ; His doctrines condemned by the University of Paris, and controverted by Henry VIII of England ; Henry VIII favors the Emperor Charles against Francis I ; Leo X makes a treaty with Charles ; Death of Chievres ; Hostilities in Navarre and in the Low Countries ; Siege of Mezieres ; Congress at Calais ; League against France ; Hostilities in Italy ; Death of Leo X ; Defeat of the French ; Henry VIII declares war against France ; Charles visits England ; Conquest of Rhodes by Solyman.

"Charles V (Spanish: Carlos I; Dutch: Karel V; German: Karl V.; Italian: Carlo V; French: Charles Quint; 24 February 1500 ? 21 September 1558) was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I as Holy Roman Emperor and his son Philip II as King of Spain in 1556."--Wikipedia.

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