. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. ates of Augs-burg. According to some writers, King Pulzkoand four of the war-chiefs were hanged before thegates of Ratisbon. Werner was killed by the en-raged Hungarians, but few of whom escaped totheir country, almost the whole of the fugitivesbeing slain or hunted down like wild beasts bythe Bavarian peasants. The adherents of the ad-verse party were mercilessly punished by Henryof Bavaria, who caused them to be buried al
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. ates of Augs-burg. According to some writers, King Pulzkoand four of the war-chiefs were hanged before thegates of Ratisbon. Werner was killed by the en-raged Hungarians, but few of whom escaped totheir country, almost the whole of the fugitivesbeing slain or hunted down like wild beasts bythe Bavarian peasants. The adherents of the ad-verse party were mercilessly punished by Henryof Bavaria, who caused them to be buried alive, orburned in beds of quicklime. Herold, bishop ofSalzburg, was by his orders deprived of sight, andthe patriarch Lupus of Aquileia met with a stillmore wretched fate. This was the last inroadattempted by the Hungarians, who for the futureremained within their frontier, on their sideequally undisturbed by the Germans. Thebooty was so enormous that a peasant is saidto have had a silver plough made out of hisshare. The innumerable Hungarian horsestaken on this occasion also gave rise to theestablishment of the Keferloher horse THE REVIVAL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. German Peasant of the TenthCentury For a quarter of a century Otto (936-962)ruled with no higher title than king of the was not till the winter of 962 that this successorof Charlemagne received the imperial crown, and proclaimed once more tothe world the fact of that union of Roman and Teuton, upon which thestructure of modern society was to rest. We have now to trace the storyof what Bryce regards as the real foundation of the Roman Empire of theMiddle Ages. The one portion of the Carlovingian monarchy which suffered most in thedark age of dissolution was Italy. The heroic efforts on its behalf of LouisII, the last worthy descendant of Charles, were rendered fruitless by hisearly death without a son to succeed. Then Italy was a prize for unclesand cousins, like Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat. After
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