目录: Introduction ................................................................ 1 Part I: Starting Up the Middle Ages(450–800) ............ 7 Chapter 1: Journeying Back to the Middle Ages: When, Where, What, Who? ........... 9 Chapter 2: Finishing Off the Roman Empire and Entering the (Not So) Dark Ages .... 19 Chapter 3: Settling in England with the Anglo-Saxons ................................................ 33 Chapter 4: Organising Early France & Germany: The Merovingians and Carolingians ........................................................................... 45 Chapter 5: Becoming Great: Charlemagne and the New Roman Empire .................. 57 Part II: Forming the Basis of Europe(850–1100) ........ 69 Chapter 6: Laying the Foundations of Europe.............................................................. 71 Chapter 7: Linking East and West: Islam in Europe ..................................................... 83 Chapter 8: Invading from the North: The Vikings ........................................................ 97 Chapter 9: Splitting the Church: Schisms between East and West ......................... 113 Chapter 10: Revving Up the ‘Real’ Middle Ages with the Normans ......................... 125 Part III: Waging Holy War: Crusading at Home and Abroad(1050–1300) ....................................... 145 Chapter 11: Uncovering the Origins of the Crusades ................................................ 147 Chapter 12: Waging the First Crusade: 1096–1099..................................................... 159 Chapter 13: Struggling for Power: Popes Versus Monarchs..................................... 175 Chapter 14: Waging the Second Crusade and Crusading at Home .......................... 189 Chapter 15: Pitting Richard I Against Saladin: The Third Crusade ......................... 205 Chapter 16: Following the Fourth Crusade and Other Failures ............................... 219 Part IV: Dealing with Domestic Dramas: Parliament, Priories and Plagues(1200–1300) .......................... 237 Chapter 17: Having Trouble in England: John, Henry III and Edward I ................... 239 Chapter 18: Meeting Medieval Monks and Merchants .............................................. 255 Chapter 19: Piling On the Popes: Avignon and the Antipopes ................................. 269 Chapter 20: Facing God’s Judgement: Dealing with the Black Death ...................... 281
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