Title: Medieval history; the life and death of a civilization
Authors: Cantor, Norman F.
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 1969
Subjects: Middle Ages.
Contents: Prologue: the uses of history -- Introduction: the scope of medieval history -- Historiographical outline -- The periods of medieval history -- The themes of early medieval history -- Decline and fall -- The Roman empire in the second century A.D. -- The crisis of the Roman world -- The religious quest of the Roman world -- The Christian empire and the Christian church -- The shaping of the Catholic church -- Constantine the Christian emperor -- The Christian Roman empire -- The making of Latin Christianity -- Athens and Jerusalem -- Augustine's pilgrimage -- Main themes in Latin patristic thought -- The age of the barbarian invasions -- The Germans -- The first century of the invasions -- The second phase of the invasions: the Ostrogothic and Frankish kingdoms -- Justinian and Mohammed -- The nemesis of Byzantine power -- The impact of Islam on early medieval Europe -- The advance of ecclesiastical leadership -- The monastic foundations of medieval civilization --^