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Sub-Pages	Subjects covered by the source texts in each sub-section.
Studying History	Using Primary Sources Medieval Documents Accessing Medieval Documents The Uses of History
The End of Rome & the Three Successor Civilizations
End of the Classical World	Pagan Late Antiquity Late Antique Government and Culture The "Fall" of the Roman Empire Christian Late Antiquity Early Christianity After 100 Persecution of Christians The "Triumph" of the Church Persecution by Christians/The End of Paganism Early Dogmatic Disputes Disputes over the Trinity: Arianism Disputes over Christology: Nestorianism and Monophysitism The World of the Church Fathers Eastern Fathers Western Fathers Christianity and Classical Learning The German Impact Early Germans Invading Germans/Other "Barbarians"
Byzantium	General Foundations Justinian (b.483- r.527-d.565) Justinian and Theodora Government Society and Economy Church Policy Wars Buildings Laws After Justinian Iconoclasm Byzantine Imperial Centuries (843-1204) Macedonian Dynasty Eleventh Century Conflicts The Komnenoi The Final Centuries The Nicean Period The Palaiologoi The Peloponnese and Mistra Trebizond The Fall of Constantinople and Aftermath After Byzantium Byzantine Religion General Religion Ecclesiastical Organization Theology Spirituality Liturgy Sanctity Monasticism Heresy and Dissent The Byzantine Commonwealth Syria Armenia Bulgaria Serbia/Montenegro Vikings Inner Asia The Byzantine Commonwealth: Russia Accounts of Byzantium by Others
Islam	General Pre-Islamic Arabia Muhammad and Foundations - to 632 CE Islamic Expansion and Empire - to 750 CE The Abbasid Caliphate - after 750 CE Politics Philosophy Science Literature Crusades Al-Andalus: Muslim Spain Muslim Persia Egypt and North Africa Muslim Religious Development Sufism The Sunni Tradition The Shia Tradition Relations with Other Religions The Turks
The Formation of Latin Christendom
The Church	The Rise of the Church of Rome Monasticism to A.D. 900 Eastern Origins Celtic Monasticism The Benedictine Movement The Conversion of Europe Franks Celtic Missions England Germany Scandinavia The Slavs Rus Other Missionary Areas
Early Germanic States	Romanized (Christian) Goths Ostrogoths Visgoths Lombards Non-Christian Germans Franks Anglo-Saxons Germanic Culture
Celtic World	The Celtic Loss of Britain Celtic Christianity Celtic Literature
Carolingians and After	The Rise of the Carolingian Dynasty and Papal Support Charles Martel Pepin Charlemagne Personality Wars Legal and Social Documents Carolingian Culture Carolingian Decline and Division
Western Collapse and Recovery
Crisis, Recovery, Feudalism?	External Attacks: Vikings: Magyars: Arabs The Collapse of Security A Castellan Revolution Viking Adventures Feudalism? Essay on the Problem Online Reviews of Fiefs and Vassals Oaths and Contracts Methods of Land Transfer Inheritance Grants Fiefs Methods of Government Methods of Supporting an Army Development of the Later Legal Terminology of "Feudalism" A Militarized Society Monetization of Military Activity The Ottonian Dynasty and After The Y1K Problem: The Year 1000
Economic Life	Economic Life Before the 11th Century Late Antique Italy The Merovingian Era The Carolingian Economy Anglo-Saxon England Celtic World Roots of the Commercial Revolution Population Growth Attitude Towards Work The Control and Granting of Rights Trade and Commerce Money and Coinage Credit Fairs and Markets State Interference in Trade Sea Trade Long Distance Trade Mid-Distance Trade The Slave Trade The Hanse Book-Keeping Business Contracts Tolls/Taxes Prices The Rise of Towns The Communal Movement Bourgeois Institutions: Gilds Craft Gilds Gild Merchants Legal Controls Urban Cultures Industries General Mining Tanning Cloth Manufacture Masonry The State and the Economy Taxation The Church and the Economy General Tithes Tax Exemptions Monastic Property Cartulary of Saint Trond Slavery and Serfdom Economic Thought Rural Life The Peasantry Farming Activity Legal Position Peasant Customary Obligations Peasant Revolts Manorialism Archeology of Medieval Villages
Crusades	General Background The First Crusade Urban II's Speech, 1095 Attacks on the Jews The Journeys and Battles of the Crusade The Historians of the First Crusade The Kingdom of Jerusalem Government Economics Cultures Christian Muslim Interaction The Crusader Orders General Templars Hospitallers Teutonic Knights The Second Crusade and Aftermath Calling the Crusade Successes and Failures Criticism of the Crusade The Third Crusade Latin Problems The Loss of Jerusalem The Failure of Europe's Monarchs The German Crusade of 1197 The Fourth Crusade The Fifth and Later Crusades St Louis' Crusades The Fall of the Latin East The Effects of the Crusade Ideal in the West
Varieties of Medieval States
Empire and Papacy	Introductory Essay Phase I: The Invesituture Controversy Emergence of Reform Ideology The Conflict over Invesitures Solutions Phase II: Barbarossa: The Empire at its Height General The Besançon Episode 1157 Barbarossa and Alexander III Barbarossa in Italy Canonical Response Innocent III: The Papacy at its Height The Holy Roman Empire: Frederick II and After Frederick II The Empire's Regions The Papacy Overreaches Papal Claims Reaction: Political Reaction: Intellectual and Theological
France	General The Regions of the Kingdom of France The Rise of Capetian France Louis VI The France of Philip II Augustus St. Louis (King Louis IX) Philip IV The Hundred Years War Joan of Arc
England	Arthuriana Anglo-Saxon Britain General The Saxon Invasions The Age of Bede The Age of Alfred Law and Government Later Anglo-Saxon England Ango-Saxon Literature Norman England The Conquest 1066 William I: Administration & the Domesday Book William II Henry I and the Norman Regnum Angevin England Henry II The Man and His Family Thomas Becket Wars Administration & Origins of Common Law Richard I Lionheart England under Angevin Rule Parliamentary Origins in England Common Law: A Law of Real Property The Barons Revolt and Magna Carta The Struggle of Henry III and His Barons Parliament Coalesces Later Medieval England Government Henry III Edward I Legal Texts Select Pleas Yorkists and Lancastrians The Tudor Victory
Celtic States	Scotland Ireland
Iberia	General Visigothic Spain Al-Andulus: Moorish Spain The "Reconquista" Leon and Castile Aragon Portugal The Life of Christian Spain Seferad: Jewish Spain
Italy	General Florence Milan Venice Other Cities
The Flowering of Western Medieval Civilization
Intellectual Life	General Carolingian Thought 11th-12th Century Thought Legal Studies Philosophy: The Emergence of the Scholastic Approach Jewish Thinkers Intuitive Theology Abelard and Heloise The Discovery of the Individual? 13th-14th Century Scholasticism Educational Institutions Theology and Philosophy Aquinas Bonaventure Averroëists Nominalists Rhetoric Medieval Political Thought Science and Technology Western European Literature General Epic Lyric Romance Drama
High Medieval Church	Western Monasticism - After A.D. 900 Benedictines Cluny Cistercians Carthusians Other Orders Women's Monasticism The Mendicant Orders Franciscans Dominicans Other Orders The Secular Clergy Cathedral Chapters Parish Pastoral Clergy Medieval Heresy General Waldensianism Catharism The Inquisition Lollardy Hussites Christian Spirituality The Life of Christ The Cultus of the Virgin Mary Saints and Relics Pilgrimage The Sacramental System The Eucharist Penance Confirmation Heaven, Hell, and In Between Aspects of Popular Beliefs
Jewish Life	General Jewish Communities and Individuals Khazaria In Islam In Christian Iberia In France/Germany Relations Between Christians and Jews Jewish Economic Activity Jews and the State Roman Empire Islam Christian Iberia France/Germany England Jewish Intellectual and Religious Life Anti-Semitism
Social History	General Social Classes Slaves The Slave Trade The Church and Slavery Peasants Aristocracies Medieval People Reflected in Literature Langland Chaucer Villon Law: Theory and Practice
Sex and Gender	Women's Roles General Women in Religion Women as Writers Women in Politics Noblewomen "Middle" Class Women Towns Women Peasant Women Jewish Women Women at Home Women at Work Outside the Home Women in Business Activities Woman and Misogyny Men's Roles Constructions of Sexuality and Gender General Legal Control of Sexualuty Theological Norms Homoerotic/Transgendered Subcultures Marriage General Theology Law and Marriage Married Lives
Transformations
States and Society	The "Calamitous" 14th Century A Malthusian Crisis? The Black Death Warfare Ecclesiastical Disarray The Great Schism Conciliarism The Papal Response Late Medieval Governments The Empire Italy France Joan of Arc England
Renaissance	Early Italian Humanism Dante Petrarch Artists Politics and Politicians The Arts of Civilization
Reformation	General Protestant Reformation Luther Calvin Radicals England Catholic Reformation
Exploration and Expansion	General Drang Nach Osten Western Orientalism Maritime Exploration and Conquest Portuguese Exploration Columbus

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