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This is a collection of 39 essays by historians on a wide variety of medieval topics. The material is presented in roughly chronological order, and within each period the essays are grouped around a particular theme, for example feudal society, or women and family.

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• Note on the Fifth Edition
• Preface
• Chapter 1 The End of the Ancient World General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West
• The Decay of Ancient Civilization, Michael Rostovtzeff The Impact of Christianity
• Chapter 2 The Making of Europe Muhammad and Charlemagne
• Merovingian Society, Patrick Geary Charlemagne and the Roman Church
• Chapter 3 Feudal Society: Problems and Approaches Kinship and Lordship, Marc Bloch Feudalism in Western Europe
• The Tyranny of a Construct
• Chapter 4 Economic Life and Social Change Manorial Economies, Georges Duby On The Evidence of Growth of Population in the West
• The Origins of the Medieval Town Patriciate
• The Expansion of Europe
• Chapter 5 Humanism and "Renaissance" In the Twelfth Century The Humanism of the Twelfth Century, David Knowles Medieval Humanism
• Renaissance or Proto-Renaissance
• Chapter 6 Women and Family Courtly Love
• Peasant Life, Barbara Hanawalt Women and Children
• Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
• Chapter 7 Spiritual and Temporal Power
• The Hierocratic Doctrine
• The Duality of Medieval Society
• The Papal Revolution
• Chapter 8 The Medieval State; Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, Representation
• The Emergence of the State, Gaines Post Church Law and Constitutional Thought, Brian Tierney Medieval Institutions: Islam and the West
• A Fourteenth-Century Parliament
• Chapter 9 God, Nature, and Art
• The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis
• The Mirror of Nature, Emile Male Thomas Aquinas: Reason and Revelation
• Popular Religion
• Chapter 10 On the Margin: Vagabonds, Outcasts, and Jews Marginal People
• The Decline of Medieval Jewry
• The Black Death and the Jews
• Chapter 11 Problems of Late Medieval Society Parents and Children
• Land and Population
• The Closing of the Medieval Frontier
• Cities and Social Classes, Edith Ennen Religion and Revolution