Note on the Fifth EditionPrefaceChapter 1: The End of the Ancient WorldGeneral Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West, Edward GibbonThe Decay of Ancient Civilization, Michael RostovtzeffThe Impact of Christianity, Peter BrownChapter 2: The Making of EuropeMuhammad and Charlemagne, Henri PirennePirenne and Muhammad, Daniel C. DennetMerovingian Society, Patrick GearyCharlemagne and the Roman Church, Christopher DawsonChapter 3: Feudal Society: Problems and ApproachesKinship and Lordship, Marc BlochFeudalism in Western Europe, Joseph R. StrayerThe Tyranny of a Construct, Elizabeth A. R. BrownChapter 4: Economic Life and Social ChangeManorial Economies, Georges DubyOn The Evidence of Growth of Population in the West, Leopold GenicotThe Origins of the Medieval Town Patriciate, A.B. HibbertThe Expansion of Europe, Robert BartlettChapter 5: Humanism and Renaissance In the Twelfth CenturyThe Humanism of the Twelfth Century, David KnowlesMedieval Humanism, R.W. SouthernRenaissance or Proto-Renaissance, Eva Matthews SanfordChapter 6: Women and FamilyCourtly Love, C.S. LewisPeasant Life, Barbara HanawaltWomen and Children, Christiane Klapisch-ZubberFast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, Caroline Walker BynumChapter 7: Spiritual and Temporal PowerThe Hierocratic Doctrine, Walter UllmannThe Duality of Medieval Society, R.W. and A.J. CarlyleThe Papal Revolution, Harold J. BermanChapter 8: The Medieval State; Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, RepresentationThe Emergence of the State, Gaines PostChurch Law and Constitutional Thought, Brian TierneyMedieval Institutions: Islam and the West, Antony BlackA Fourteenth-Century Parliament, George L. HaskinsChapter 9: God, Nature, and ArtThe Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis, Lynn White, Jr.The Mirror of Nature, Emile MaleThomas Aquinas: Reason and Revelation, Etienne GilsonPopular Religion, Robert FossierChapter 10: On the Margin: Vagabonds, Outcasts, and JewsMarginal People, Bronislaw GeremekThe Decline of Medieval Jewry, Jeremy CohenThe Black Death and the Jews, Philip ZieglerChapter 11: Problems of Late Medieval SocietyParents and Children, Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieLand and Population, M.M. PostanThe Closing of the Medieval Frontier, Archibald R. LewisCities and Social Classes, Edith EnnenReligion and Revolution, Norman Cohn
