A History of the Middle Ages, 300-1500

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pt. I. Slow transition from classical to medieval world -- 1. The transformation of classical civilization : the political and economic story through the fifth century CE -- Economic story through the 5th Century CE -- Rome -- The first two centuries of the Empire (31 BCE-200 CE) -- Era of the five great emperors (96-180) -- Transformation of the Roman Empire (286-395) -- the Middle Ages begin -- Last Western emperors -- 2. The transformation of classical civilization: religion and culture through the fifth century CE -- Quest for meaning in the pagan world -- Rise of Christianity -- Latin Church fathers -- Women's role in the Late Empire -- Learning and the Arts -- 3. Warriors, farmers, and saints in the barbarian kingdoms (200-600) -- Barbarian background -- The German kingdoms -- Franks and the Merovingian Kingdom -- Conversions, saints, and Irish Christianity -- Rome and the Roman Church -- 4. Byzantine empire: a struggle for unity and regaining past glory (451-630) -- Internal conflicts in Byzantium (451-527) -- Age of Justinian and Theodora (527-565) -- Asiatic tribes, overextension, and division in the post-Justinian era -- Divided Byzantium (451-630) -- 5. Islam: the religion, politics, and culture (570-1000) -- Rise of Islam -- Islam in contact with Christianity -- Islamic society -- Pax Islamica --
pt. II. Central Middle Ages -- 6. Technology, society, and politics in early medieval west (600-750) -- Britain's Anglo-Saxon Renaissance while the Iberian Peninsula struggles -- Late Merovingian Gaul -- 7. The age of Charlemagne (750-814) -- Manorial life : peasants, nobility, and clergy -- Charlemagne as King of the Franks -- Women in the Carolingian Era -- Charlemagne as Church leader -- 8. Europe: disunited, assaulted, and saved (814-1024) -- Disintegration of Charlemagne's Empire -- Vikings -- Vikings and Muslims in the Frankish kingdoms and Iberia -- Northmen in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Byzantium -- The Norsemen in the Atlantic : Iceland, Greenland, and North America -- Germany (East Francia), Italy, and the Holy Roman Empire -- 9. New devotion, growth of towns, and commerce (950-1100) -- Beginnings of monastic reforms : Cluny and the Benedictine centuries -- Investiture struggle -- Urbanization in the Great Turnaround (1000-1200) -- Expansion of long- and short-distance commerce -- Technology and towns alter cultural roles -- Feudal states --
pt. III. High Middle Ages -- 10. The era of the first crusade (1071-1097) -- Technology innovations and transfers -- Peasants, monks, lords, and land -- Intellectual revival -- 11. The renaissance of the twelfth century -- The Western kingdoms -- Rise of universities -- Wine, women, song, and counterculture -- Islamic learning and its assimilation in the West -- Second Crusade -- The Greek and Slavic East -- Western Europe at the end of the century -- 12. The flowering of the Middle Ages (ca. 1150-1300) -- Just law, just war, and monarchy -- Fair price and medieval economic theory -- Monastic reforms, poverty, and property -- The conflict over reason -- Medicine as science -- History and historians : breaking with classical tradition -- Gothic art and architecture -- The Romances -- Women and gender relations --
pt. IV. The transition from the medieval to modern periods -- 13. Falcons, swords, Occam's razor, and germs: from bouvines to the black death (1214-1347) -- Empire from Frederick II to the Hapsburgs -- The Papacy and crusade gone awry -- France -- England, Scotland, and Ireland -- Iberia and Northern Italy -- Nobles, peasants, and burghers in transition -- Metaphysical foundations of modern science -- Economic downturn and Black Death -- 14. Conformity, creativity, and authority (1350-1500) -- Nonconformists and non-Christians -- Art and architecture in Italy : a renovatio -- Italian literature and letters -- Art and letters in Northern Europe and Arabia -- 15. The medieval twilight in Europe and western Asia: decay and discovery -- Science and technology -- Spain unites, Portugal excepted -- British Isles and civil strife -- France : apanages, taxes, and wars -- Holy Roman Empire and Eastern Europe -- Byzantium, Turks, Tamerlane, and the Muslim East -- "Pessimism and the ideal of the sublime life" -- Demographic trends and witchcraft -- Epilogue -- Chronology 1 : Roman Empire to 500 -- Chronology 2 : 500 to 1500.

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