Each chapter has been written by a specialist and each volume concludes with an extensive bibliography. The emphasis is on political and economic history but there are also chapters on medieval universities, language and learning, and chivalry in the Middle Ages. Crosby, Everett U., et al. A Bibliographical Guide . The selection of about nine thousand entries has been made in order to provide a topical classification of the fundamental and significant books and monographs, published through 1980, dealing with the period from the third century A.D. to the sixteenth.
Arrangement is by subject under chapter headings.
Comprehensive indices list entries by authors, editors, and by topics. W.T.H. Jackson, ed. and G. Stade, ed. in chief. A collection of lengthy signed biographical and critical articles about major European writers. Each article includes a selected bibliography. Storey, R. L. Chronology of the Medieval World 800 to 1491 .