Preface
Chapter I On looking Forward and Looking Backward
Chapter II Lost Illusions: The Papacy and The Holy Roman Empire
Chapter III The End of the Fifteenth Century
Chapter IV Man and the Universe in the Sixteenth Century
Chapter V Tendencies and Individuals. The Popes and The King of France
Chapter VI Tendencies and Individuals. Charles V and Philip II
Chapter VII Tendencies and Individuals. Henry VIII of England
Chapter VIII Tendencies and Individuals. Gustavus Vasa and Scandinavian Protestantism
Chapter IX The Opportunists Great and Small. Elizabeth and Catherine De Medici and Others
Chapter X The Turkish Danger, 1520-71
Chapter XI The Wars of the Sixteenth Century: (a) The Italian Wars, (b) The 'Wars of Religion'
Chapter XII The Occult in the Sixteenth Century
Index
Biography
Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman, KBE, FBA was a British military historian. Oman's academic career was interrupted by the First World War, during which he was employed by the government's Press Bureau and the Foreign Office. Oman was the Conservative Member of Parliament for the University of Oxford constituency from 1919 to 1935, and was knighted KBE in the 1920 civilian war honours list.
