CONTENTS

1. Cover
2. Titlepage
3. Dedication
4. Preface
5. ONE The Heritage of the Ancient World
6.        I.   POLITICS AND SOCIETY
7.       II.   PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
8. TWO The Foundations of the Middle Ages
9.        I.   FROM JUDAISM TO CHRISTIANITY
10.       II.   DECLINE AND FALL
11.      III.   THE ROMAN DESTINY
12.      IV.   PATRISTIC CULTURE
13. THREE The Age of the Barbarian Invasions
14.        I.   THE GERMANS
15.       II.   THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE INVASIONS
16.      III.   THE OSTROGOTHIC AND FRANKISH KINGDOMS
17. FOUR Justinian and Mohammed
18.        I.   THE NEMESIS OF BYZANTINE POWER
19.       II.   THE IMPACT OF ISLAM ON EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE
20. FIVE The Advance of Ecclesiastical Leadership
21.        I.   THE RISE OF MONASTICISM
22.       II.   GREGORY THE GREAT AND THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PAPACY
23. SIX The Making of Carolingian Kingship
24.        I.   ANGLO-IRISH CULTURE AND THE COLONIAL PHENOMENON
25.       II.   THE CAROLINGIAN ENIGMA
26.      III.   MONARCHY AND PAPACY
27. SEVEN Culture and Society in the First Europe
28.        I.   THE CAROLINGIAN WORLD
29.       II.   THE FEUDAL ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY
30. EIGHT Ecclesia and Mundus
31.        I.   THE NATURE OF THE EARLY MEDIEVAL EQUILIBRIUM
32.       II.   THE NORMAN FEUDAL STATE
33.      III.   THE OTTONIAN EMPIRE
34.      IV.   THE CLUNIAC IDEAL
35. NINE Byzantium, Islam, and the West
36.        I.   THE LIMITATIONS OF BYZANTINE AND ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS
37.       II.   THE RISE OF EUROPE
38. TEN Europe in 1050
39. ELEVEN The Gregorian World Revolution
40.        I.   THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF THE GREGORIAN REFORM
41.       II.   THE DEBATE ON THE ESSENTIALS OF A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
42.      III.   THE GERMAN INVESTITURE CONTROVERSY
43. TWELVE The Anglo-Norman Monarchy and the Emergence of the Bureaucratic State
44.        I.   THE TRIUMPH OF WILLIAM THE BASTARD
45.       II.   THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ENGLISH INVESTITURE CONTROVERSY
46. THIRTEEN The First Crusade and After
47.        I.   ORIGINS OF THE CRUSADING IDEAL
48.       II.   CRUSADING MEMORIES
49. FOURTEEN The Intellectual Expansion of Europe
50.        I.   THE ACCELERATION OF CULTURAL CHANGE
51.       II.   THE LEGAL CONSTITUENTS OF HIGH MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION
52.      III.   A GREAT GENERATION: FIVE LEADERS OF TWELFTH-CENTURY THOUGHT AND FEELING
53.      IV.   LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY
54. FIFTEEN Moslem and Jewish Thought: The Aristotelian Challenge
55.        I.   THE PROBLEM OF LEARNING
56.       II.   REASON AND REVELATION IN MOSLEM AND JEWISH THOUGHT
57. SIXTEEN Varieties of Religious Experience
58.        I.   MONKS AND SOCIETY
59.       II.   THE DIMENSIONS OF POPULAR HERESY
60. SEVENTEEN The Entrenchment of Secular Leadership
61.        I.   POWER AND CHARISMA
62.       II.   THE CAPETIAN ASCENDANCY
63. EIGHTEEN The Peace of Innocent III
64.        I.   THE REAFFIRMATION OF PAPAL LEADERSHIP
65.       II.   THE DOMINICAN AND FRANCISCAN IDEALS
66. NINETEEN The New Consensus and Its Limitations
67.        I.   THE CATHEDRAL OF INTELLECT
68.       II.   THE MORAL AUTHORITY OF THE STATE
69.      III.   THE INTERESTS OF SOCIETY
70. TWENTY The Search for Order
71.        I.   AN OLD LAND
72.       II.   THE CRISIS OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
73.      III.   PAPACY AND CLERGY
74.      IV.   THE EUROPEAN STATES
75. TWENTY-ONE Late Medieval and Renaissance Culture
76.        I.   THE HARVEST OF MEDIEVAL THOUGHT
77.       II.   THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
78.      III.   MEDIEVALISM AND THE MIDDLE AGES
79. The Middle Ages on Film
80. Recommended Reading
81.      A SHORT LIST
82.      THE LONG LIST
83. Index
84. About the Author
85. Also by Norman F. Cantor
86. Copyright
87. About the Publisher