Excerpt from A General History of the Christian Era, Vol. 1: For Catholic Colleges and Reading Circles, and for Self-Instruction the Papacy and the Empire The work is intended to serve as a guide for Catholic college students, reading circles and for self-instruction. In the class room it will serve the purpose of consecutive reading. The private student will find ample references to enlarge his reading on any historical question of importance within the period, in which he may be interested. Reading circles will find more than sufficient matter for any number of essays or debates by consulting the book lists. As to the use of the book in the class-room the author begs leave to make the following suggestions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.