Civilization of the Middle Ages by Cantor, Norman F. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Titlepage Dedication Contents Preface One: The Heritage of the Ancient World

I. Politics and Society II. Philosophy and Religion

Two: The Foundations of the Middle Ages

I. From Judaism to Christianity II. Decline and Fall III. The Roman Destiny IV. Patristic Culture

Three: The Age of the Barbarian Invasions

I. The Germans II. The First Century of the Invasions III. The Ostrogothic and Frankish Kingdoms

Four: Justinian and Mohammed

I. The Nemesis of Byzantine Power II. The Impact of Islam on Early Medieval Europe

Five: The Advance of Ecclesiastical Leadership

I. The Rise of Monasticism II. Gregory the Great and The Early Medieval Papacy

Six: The Making of Carolingian Kingship

I. Anglo-Irish Culture and The Colonial Phenomenon II. The Carolingian Enigma III. Monarchy and Papacy

Seven: Culture and Society in the First Europe

I. The Carolingian World II. The Feudal Organization of Society

Eight: Ecclesia and Mundus

I. The Nature of The Early Medieval Equilibrium II. The Norman Feudal State III. The Ottonian Empire IV. The Cluniac Ideal

Nine: Byzantium, Islam, and the West

I. The Limitations of Byzantine and Islamic Civilizations II. The Rise of Europe

Ten: Europe in 1050 Eleven: The Gregorian World Revolution

Twelve: The Anglo-Norman Monarchy and the Emergence of the Bureaucratic State

Thirteen: The First Crusade and After

I. Origins of the Crusading Ideal II. Crusading Memories

Fourteen: The Intellectual Expansion of Europe

Fifteen: Moslem and Jewish Thought: The Aristotelian Challenge

I. The Problem of Learning II. Reason and Revelation in Moslem and Jewish Thought

Sixteen: Varieties of Religious Experience

I. Monks and Society II. The Dimensions of Popular Heresy

Seventeen: The Entrenchment of Secular Leadership

I. Power and Charisma II. The Capetian Ascendancy

Eighteen: The Peace of Innocent III

I. The Reaffirmation of Papal Leadership II. The Dominican and Franciscan Ideals

Nineteen: The New Consensus and Its Limitations

I. The Cathedral of Intellect II. The Moral Authority of the State III. The Interests of Society

Twenty: The Search for Order

I. An Old Land II. The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages III. Papacy and Clergy IV. The European States

Twenty-One: Late Medieval and Renaissance Culture

I. The Harvest of Medieval Thought II. The Italian Renaissance III. Medievalism and the Middle Ages

The Middle Ages on Film Recommended Reading

A Short List The Long List

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