Table of Contents:
“…The Latin church fathers -- The German conquest of the Roman Empire (I): to the end of the fourth century -- The German conquest of the Roman Empire (II): From the end of the fourth century to the end of the sixth -- The Byzantine Empire --The empire of the Arabs -- The civilization of early Western Europe -- The Frankish state under the Carolingians -- The collapse of the Carolingian Empire -- Feudalism -- Manorialism -- The revival of the empire -- The apex and decline of the Holy Roman Empire -- The development of the English state (1066-1272) -- France under the Capetian kings (987-1204) -- France under the Capetian kings (1204-1328) -- Western Europe encroaches on Islam, the crusades -- The revival of trade and industry -- The urban revolution, the gilds -- The medieval reformation -- The triumph of the church -- The medieval renaissance (I): philosophy, science education -- The medieval renaissance (II): literature, art, music -- The development of the English state (1272-1485) -- Western Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Central and eastern Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- The church in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Learning and art in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.…”