Table of Contents

Part One: The Dark Ages
Introduction
1. Constantine the Great: The New Rome and Christianity
2. The barbarian invasions
3. Three reactions to the barbarian invasions
4. The Church and the Papacy
5. Islam
6. The Franks
7. The Break-up of the Carolingian Empire
8. Europe at the end of the ninth century: economic survey
Part Two: The High Middle Ages (900-1250)
Introduction.
1. The Saxon Empire
2. The Reform of the Papcy
3. Monasticism in the 11th and 12th centuries
4. Jerusalem regained and lost: the first three Crusades.
5. Feudal monachy and the French Kingdom (1066-1223)
6.The Emperor Frederrick I Barbarossa (1152-1190)
7. The Crisis of the Church
8. The new era in monachy
9. Europe in the middle of the 13th century: an economic survey
Epilogue: the Mongols

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About the Author

The late R H C Davis was Professor of Medieval History at the Universityof Birmingham, from 1970 to 1984, and Emeritus Professor until his death in 1991. He was also Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Fellow of the BritishAcademy. He wrote many successful and scholarly works, and in 1985 was honoured by the publication, " Studies in Medieval History "presented to R H C Davis', edited by Henry Mayr-Harting and R I Moore, and published by Hambledon Press.