This volume of translated source materials from the late Roman Empire to the mid-15th century introduces students to the diversity of medieval culture, covering all aspects of medieval life--social, religious, economic, intellectual, institutional.
Note on the Sixth Edition
Preface
THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
Chapter 1: The Late Roman Empire
Chapter 2: Christianity and the Pagan Tradition
Chapter 3: The Barbarians
Chapter 4: Roman, Christian, and Teutonic Conceptions of Law
Chapter 5: The Rise of the Papacy
Chapter 6: Monasticism and the Conversion of the North
Chapter 7: Byzantium and Islam
Chapter 8: The Frankish-Papal Alliance
Chapter 9: The Early Medieval Empire
Chapter 10: Byzantium, the West, and the Slavs
Chapter 11: The Development of Feudal Institutions
Chapter 12: The Investiture Contest
THE TWELFTH CENTURY
Chapter 13: The First Crusaders
Chapter 14: Ways of Thought and Feeling
Chapter 15: Towns and Trade
Chapter 16: Varieties of Medieval Literature
Chapter 17: Women, Love, and Marriage
Chapter 18: Feudal Kingship
Chapter 19: Empire and Papacy
THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 20: The Zenith of Papal Power
Chapter 21: Heretics and Friars
Chapter 22: The French Monarchy
Chapter 23: The Holy Roman Empire
Chapter 24: Constitutionalism in England
Chapter 25: Rural Life
Chapter 26: The World of Thought
THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
Chapter 27: The Papacy and Its Critics
Chapter 28: Fourteenth-Century Calamities
Chapter 29: Peasants' Rebellions
Chapter 30: Women and Work
Chapter 31: Women and Religion: Saint and Heretic
Chapter 32: Aspects of Late Medieval Government
Chapter 33: Conciliarism in the Church
Chapter 34: Late Medieval Society- Classes and Attitudes
Chapter 35: Epilogue