Excerpt from The Close of the Middle Ages: 1273-1494 More prominent than Spain and England, or even than France; and that Germany and Italy are not coherent states at all. The former is abundle of states, and the latter can hardly be said to be as much. And it may be urged with some force that German history in the fourteenth century cannot be studied without some attention being paid to Poland, Hungary, and Denmark; that the history of Venice and Florence cannot be isolated from that of Genoa and Pisa; and that even in tracing the growth of states which achieved some measure of unity it is necessary to note the absorption of the formerly distinct and independent provinces.

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