An introduction to the study of the Middle Ages (375-814) / by Ephraim Emerton.

  • Emerton, Ephraim, 1851-1935.
Date:
[1888], ©1888
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Credit: An introduction to the study of the Middle Ages (375-814) / by Ephraim Emerton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    The second cause was a pressure from behind. We shall speak of this at some length by and by, pressure from and need to remember for the present only k^™3, that to the east and north of the Germans were immense masses of other and still ruder barbarians, Slavs and men of the great Tartar race, who were pushing upon them from time to time with great violence, and were only waiting for them to move, to press on and occupy the lands they left empty. Thus all these forces were acting at once, drawing and pushing the Germans towards the south and west. The time had come when the fron- tier must be broken.