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Table of ContentsList of maps ; Preface to the Third Edition ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Why the Middle Ages Matter ; Part One: The Early Middle Ages: The Third through Ninth Centuries ; 1. The Roman World at its Height ; The Geography Of Empire ; The Role Of The Military ; Roman Society ; Roman Government ; The Challenges of The Third Century ; Reform, Recovery, Persecution, and Favor ; Suggested Reading ; 2. The Rise of Christianity ; Before Christ ; The Growth of the New Religion ; The Problem of Persecution ; The Problem of Heresy ; Constantine and Theodosius: An Imperial Church ; Responses to Imperialization ; Suggested Reading ; 3. Early Germanic Society ; Germanic Life ; Migrations And Invasions ; Europe's First Kingdoms ; Germanic Christianity And The Fourth "Doctor Of The Church" ; Suggested Reading ; 4. Cloister and Culture ; The Rise Of Monasticism In The East ; The Rise Of Monasticism In The West ; Cultural Life in The West: Cassiodorus, Boethius, And St. Benedict ; Suggested Reading ; 5. The Emergence of the Medieval Worlds ; Continuity and Change in Northern Europe ; Continuity and Change in the Mediterranean ; The Rise of Islam ; A Tripartite World ; Suggested Reading ; 6. The Carolingian Era ; The "Do-Nothing" Kings and the Rise of the Carolingians ; The Carolingian Monarchy ; Carolingian Administration ; Carolingian Society ; The Carolingian Cultural Renewal ; Suggested Reading ; Part Two: The Central Middle Ages: The Tenth through Twelfth Centuries ; 7. The Time of Troubles ; Trouble From Within ; Trouble From The North ; Trouble From The East ; Trouble From The South ; The End Of The World? ; Suggested Reading ; 8. Revolutions on Land and Sea ; Changes on The Land ; A Peasant Society Emerges ; Changes on The Sea ; a maritime society emerges ; suggested reading ; 9. A New Europe Emerges: North and South ; The Rise of Feudal Society ; The First German Empire ; The Rise of Capetian France ; The Anglo-Norman Realm ; The Spanish Kingdoms ; The Italian Scene ; Suggested Reading ; 10. The Reform Of The Church ; The Origins Of The Reform ; The Papal Revolution ; Christendom And The East ; Monastic Reforms ; Suggested Reading ; 11. The Renaissances of the Twelfth Century ; Aristotle, Anselm, Abelard, And Ibn Rushd ; Law And Canon Law ; The Recovery Of Science ; The Rise Of The Universities ; Courtly Life, Love, And Literature ; Suggested Reading ; 12. The Papal Monarchy ; Church Against State Once More ; The Consolidation Of Papal Authority ; The Revival Of Heresy ; The Albigensian Crusade And The Origins Of The Inquisition ; Suggested Reading ; Part Three: The Late Middle Ages: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries ; 13. Politics in the Thirteenth Century ; The Rise Of Representative Institutions ; England And France ; Germany, Italy, And The Papacy ; The New Mediterranean Superpowers ; Byzantium and Islam in the Thirteenth Century ; Suggested Reading ; 14. Art and Intellect in the Thirteenth Century ; Scholasticism ; From Romanesque to Gothic Vision ; Science And Technology ; Aspects of Popular Culture ; Suggested Reading ; 15. Daily Life at the Medieval Zenith ; Economic Changes ; Peasants' Lives ; Townsfolks' Lives ; The Question of Literacy ; Sex and the City (and the Town, and the Village) ; Suggesting Reading ; 16. Changes in Religious Life ; The Importance Of Being Penitent ; The Importance Of Being Poor ; The Humanization of Christ and the Cult of the Virgin ; Mysticism ; Suggested Reading ; 17. The Crises of the Fourteenth Century ; Economic Difficulties ; The Great Famine ; The Black Death ; War Everywhere ; Challenges To Church Unity ; Suggested Reading ; 18. Signs of a New Era ; William of Ockham ; Marsilius of Padua ; Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer ; Christine de Pizan ; Suggested Reading ; Part Four: Two Epilogues ; 19. Closings In, Closings Out ; The Last Years of Byzantium ; The Search for a New Route to the East ; Closing In on Muslim Spain ; The Expulsions of the Jews ; Closing In Forever: The Forced Cloistering of Women Religious ; Suggested Reading ; 20. The Renaissance In Medieval Context ; Economies New and Old circa 1400 ; The Meaning of Humanism ; The Canonization of Classical Culture ; The Rejection of the Middle Ages ; Suggested Reading ; Appendix A: The Medieval Popes ; Appendix B: The Carolingians ; Appendix C: The Capetians ; Appendix C: France: The Valois ; Appendix E: England: The Norman and Plantagenet Dynasties ; Appendix F: England: The Lancastrian and Yorkist Dynasties ; Appendix G: Germany: The Ottonian, Salian, and Hohenstaufen Dynasties ; Appendix H: Germany: The Late Medieval Emperors ; Appendix I: The Spanish Kingdoms, 1000-1250 ; Appendix J: The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1500 ; Appendix K: The Emperors in Constantinople ; Glossary ; Index
