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Tables of Contents for The Worlds of Medieval Europe
Chapter/Section Title
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Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction: Why the Middle Ages Matter
1
6
PART ONE The Early Middle Ages: The Third Through Ninth Centuries
The Roman World at its Height
7
16
The Geography of Empire
7
3
The Role of the Military
10
2
Roman Society
12
2
Roman Government
14
3
The Challenges of the Third Century
17
2
Reform, Recovery, Persecution, and Favor
19
2
Suggested Reading
21
2
The Rise of Christianity
23
25
Before Christ
24
3
The Growth of the New Religion
27
5
The Problem of Persecution
32
2
The Problem of Heresy
34
2
Constantine and Theodosius: An Imperial Church
36
4
Responses to Imperialization
40
6
Suggested Reading
46
2
Early Germanic Society
48
21
Germanic Life
49
5
Migrations and Invasions
54
3
Europe's First Kingdoms
57
7
Germanic Christianity and the Fourth ``Doctor of the Church''
64
3
Suggested Reading
67
2
Cloister and Culture
69
17
The Rise of Monasticism in the East
69
4
The Rise of Monasticism in the West
73
5
Cultural Life in the West: Cassiodorus, Boethius, and St. Benedict
78
6
Suggested Reading
84
2
The Emergence of the Medieval Worlds
86
23
Continuity and Change in Northern Europe
86
6
Continuity and Change in the Mediterranean
92
7
The Rise of Islam
99
7
A Tripartite World
106
1
Suggested Reading
107
2
The Carolingian Era
109
28
The ``Do-Nothing'' Kings and the Rise of the Carolingians
110
4
The Carolingian Monarchy
114
6
Carolingian Administration
120
5
Carolingian Society
125
4
The Carolingian Cultural Renewal
129
4
Suggested Reading
133
4
PART TWO The Central Middle Ages: The Tenth Through Twelfth Centuries
The Time of Troubles
137
18
Internal Disintegration
137
4
Trouble from the North
141
3
Trouble from the East
144
1
Trouble from the South
145
4
The End of the World?
149
4
Suggested Reading
153
2
Revolutions on Land and Sea
155
20
Changes on the Land
156
4
A Peasant Society Emerges
160
7
Changes on the Sea
167
3
A Maritime Society Emerges
170
3
Suggested Reading
173
2
A New Europe Emerges: North and South
175
33
The Rise of Feudal Society
176
5
The First German Empire
181
6
The Rise of Capetian France
187
2
The Anglo-Norman Realm
189
7
The Spanish Kingdoms
196
5
The Italian Scene
201
5
Suggested Reading
206
2
The Reform of the Church
208
23
The Origins of the Reform
210
6
The Papal Revolution
216
3
Christendom and the East
219
8
Monastic Reforms
227
2
Suggested Reading
229
2
The Renaissances of the Twelfth Century
231
31
Aristotle, Anselm, Abelard, and 'Ibn Rushd
232
5
Law and Canon Law
237
4
The Recovery of Science
241
6
The Rise of the Universities
247
5
Courtly Life, Love, and Literature
252
8
Suggested Reading
260
2
The Papal Monarchy
262
21
Church against State Once More
263
4
The Consolidation of Papal Authority
267
6
The Revival of Heresy
273
4
The Albigensian Crusade and the Origins of the Inquisition
277
2
Suggested Reading
279
4
PART THREE The Late Middle Ages: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Politics in the Thirteenth Century
283
21
The Rise of Representative Institutions
284
2
England and France
286
7
Germany, Italy, and the Papacy
293
3
The New Mediterranean Superpowers
296
3
Byzantium and Islam in the Thirteenth Century
299
3
Suggested Reading
302
2
Art and Intellect in the Thirteenth Century
304
23
Scholasticism
305
4
The Gothic Vision
309
7
Science and Technology
316
5
Aspects of Popular Culture
321
4
Suggested Reading
325
2
Daily Life at the Medieval Zenith
327
25
Economic Changes
329
4
Peasants' Lives
333
4
Townsfolks' Lives
337
8
The Question of Literacy
345
1
Sex Lives of the Not-So-Rich and the Not-So-Famous
346
4
Suggested Reading
350
2
Changes in Religious Life
352
17
The Importance of Being Penitent
353
3
The Importance of Being Poor
356
5
The Humanization of Christ and the Cult of the Virgin
361
3
Mysticism
364
3
Suggested Reading
367
2
The Crises of the Fourteenth Century
369
26
Economic Difficulties
370
3
The Great Famine
373
1
The Black Death
374
7
War Everywhere
381
6
Challenges to Church Unity
387
7
Suggested Reading
394
1
Signs of A New Era
395
18
William of Ockham
395
3
Marsilius of Padua
398
2
Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer
400
7
Christine de Pizan
407
1
Suggested Reading
408
5
PART FOUR Two Epilogues
Closings in, Closings out
413
14
The Last Years of Byzantium
415
2
The Search for a New Route to the East
417
3
Closing In on Muslim Spain
420
2
The Expulsions of the Jews
422
2
Closing In Forever: The Forced Cloistering of Women Religious
424
1
Suggested Reading
425
2
The Renaissance in Medieval Context
427
11
Economies New and Old circa 1400
428
2
The Meaning of Humanism
430
1
The Canonization of Classical Culture
431
4
The Rejection of the Middle Ages
435
1
Suggested Reading
436
2
Appendix A The Medieval Popes
438
5
Appendix B The Carolingians
443
1
Appendix C The Capetians
444
1
Appendix D France: The Valois
445
1
Appendix E England: The Norman and Plantagenet Dynasties
446
1
Appendix F England: The Lancastrian and Yorkist Dynasties
447
1
Appendix G Germany: The Ottonian, Salian, and Hohenstaufen Dynasties
448
1
Appendix H Germany: The Late Medieval Emperors
449
1
Appendix I The Spanish Kingdoms, 1000-1250
450
1
Appendix J The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1500
451
2
Index
453