The influence of Hellenism upon the Roman world has often been considered. The opposite influence of Rome upon Hellenic and Eastern civilization up to the time of Hadrian is the subject of Dr. L. Hahn's study, Rom und Romanismns iin Griechiscli-Römischen Osten (Leipzig, Dieterich, 1906, pp. xvi, 278).
Noteworthy articles in periodicals: E. J. Webb, The Alleged Phoenician Circumnavigation of Africa (English Historical Review, January); B. Niese, Über Wehrverfassung, Dienstpflicht und Heerivesen Griechenlands (Historische Zeitschrift, XCVIII. 2); E. Gabrici, Il Problema delle Origini di Roma, secondo le Recenti Scoperte Archeologiche (Rivista di Storia Antica, N.S., II. 1); G. Spagna, Sulla Popolazione dell'Antica Siracusa (ibid.); N. Feliciani, L'Anno dei Quattro Imperatori: Galba, Ottone, Vitcllio, Vcspasiano (ibid.).
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
The Rev. J. P. Whitney has been appointed an editor of The Cambridge Medieval History in place of the late Miss Mary Bateson.
Sir Rennell Rodd has published through Arnold a two-volume study of Greece in the Middle Ages, entitled The Princes of Achaia and the Chronicles of Morra.
Der Sieg Heinrichs W. in Kanossa (Braunschweig, Goeritz, 1907, pp. 76), by Dr. A. Dammann, is a critical investigation in which the author concludes that Henry IV. did not under humiliating conditions beg the pope to remove the ban. but that as king and at the head of his great army he demanded its removal.
Gustave Schlumberger, of the Institute of France, has published a work on Campagnes dn Roi Amaury Ier de Jérusalem in Egypt of the twelfth century.
Father P. G. Golubovich, O.F.M., is compiling a Biblioteca Biobibliografica delta Terra Santa e dell'Oriente Francescano, of which the first volume covers the period 1215-1300 (Quaracchi, College Saint-Bonaventure, 1906, pp. viii, 479).
A contribution to the commercial history of a limited portion of Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries is Leon Gauthier's Les Lombards dans les Deux-Bourgognes (Paris, Champion, 1907, pp. xiii, 397): the pieces justificatives number 172.
Of two recent works entitled L'Inquisition, one by Abbé Vacandard (Paris, Bloud. 1906) is an historical and critical study of the coercive power of the Church; the other, by Monsignor Douais (Paris, Plon, pp. 371), treats of the origins and procedure of the institution studied. Documentary publications: Leto Alessandri, Inventario dell'Antica Biblioteca del S. Conz'cnto di S. Francesco in Assist, conipilato nel 1381, with notes (Assisi. Metastasio, 1906, pp. xlvi, 270).
Noteworthy articles in periodicals: P. Fournier, Étude sur les Fausses Décrétales. V. Les Fausses Décrétales. Le Saint-Siège, concl. (Revue
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