Includes filmography Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-576) and index
Contents:
The heritage of the ancient world The foundations of the Middle Ages The age of the barbarian invasions Justinian and Mohammed The advance of ecclesiastical leadership The making of Carolingian kingship Culture and society in the first Europe Ecclesia and mundus Byzantium, Islam, and the West Europe in 1050 The Gregorian world revolution The Anglo-Norman monarchy and the emergence of the bureaucratic state The first crusade and after The intellectual expansion of Europe Moslem and Jewish thought : the Aristotelian challenge Varieties of religious experience The entrenchment of secular leadership The peace of Innocent III The new consensus and its limitations The search for order Late medieval and Renaissance culture