Eastern Question. 19-20C. Instability caused by decline of Turkish rule led to Crimean War and WWI.

Ecumenicalism. 1846-. Movement to unite all Christian churches.

Edda. c1230. Collections of Icelandic literature, songs.

Edinburgh, Treaty. 1560. France and England withdraw from Scotland.

Edmund, St. -870. King of Anglia. Martyred. Remains moved to Bury St. Edmunds 903.

Edmund, St. c1175-1240. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1233-. Won reforms from Henry III.

Edmund I. 921-46. King of England 939-. Recaptured north England from Norse. Monastic revival.

Edward, The Black Prince. 1330-76. Son of Edward III. Victor at Poitiers, 1356. Captured John II of France.

Edward I. 1239-1307. King of England 1272-. Conquered Wales. Limited power of church and nobles. 1290 expelled Jews. Defined acre 1305.

Edward II. 1284-1327. King of England, 1307-. Defeated by Scots at Bannockburn. Deposed by wife, Isabella. Templars.

EEC. 1958 European Economic Community. European Union.

EFTA. European Free Trade Association. 1960. Free trade with EEC: Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Switzerland. Until joining EEC: Denmark, Portugal, UK.

Ehrenburg, Ilia. 1891-1967. Soviet writer.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969. Commander-in-Chief of Allied Armies in Europe 1943-5. US president 1953-61.

Eisner, Kurt. 1867-1919. German Socialist Revolutionary leader. First Bavarian Prime Minister.

Elaine. Dies of love for Lancelot in Arthurian legend.

Electra. Legendary Greek spirit who killed her mother, Clytemnestra to venge the murder of her father, Agamemnon.

Eleusinian Mysteries. Secret Greek ritual to honour Demeter and Persephone.

Eliot, John. 1592-1632. English Puritan leader. Parliamentary liberties.

Eliot, T.S. 1888-1965. US/English modernist poet, playwright. Prufrock 1910. Ash Wednesday 1930. Murder in the Cathedral 1935.

Elizabeth I. 1533-1603. Queen of England, 1558-. Stable, prosperous reign of literature and art. Restored Protestantism. Supported them abroad.

Éloi, St. c588-660. Treasurer to Clotaire II and Dagobert. Goldsmith.

Éluard, Paul. 1895-1952. French surrealist poet.

Émigrés. Royalist sympathizers who fled France during Revolution.

Empire. Style of Art. 1804-14. Classical heroic grandiose trend from Napoleon’s court. Arc de Triomphe, 1806.

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