Description: I. EUROPE AND MEDITERRANEAN ANTIQUITY. 1. The Beginning and End of the Roman Peace. 2. Religion and Society in Antiquity. 3. The Transformation of the Roman World. II. TWO HEIRS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. 4. The Making of Byzantine Civilization. 5. The Rise of Islam. III. THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES. 6. Christian Rome and the New Europeans. 7. The Environment of North Temperate Europe. 8. The Book and the Sword. 9. Europe Emerges. IV. CHRISTENDOM: AUTHORITY AND ENTERPRISE, 950-1150. 10. Material Civilization. 11. Power and Society. 12. Christendom East and West. V. CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES, 1150-1325. 13. New Art and New Learning. 14. Religion and Society. 15. The Political Culture of Christian Europe. 16. Reason and Imagination in the Gothic World. VI. THE LATER MIDDLE AGES, 1325-1519. 17. Material Civilization: Crisis and Recovery. 18. The Church and the World. 19. Power and Order. 20. Frontiers and Horizons. General Bibliography Index. Map List.

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