Introduction
Part I The social and economic structure
1
The physical environment
2
Social structure
3
Economic development
Part II The Church
4
The Papacy
5
The Crusades
6
Monasticism and the friars
7
Popular religion and heresy
Part III Political change
8
The Empire
9
The Kingdom of Sicily
10
The Italian city-states
11
The Capetian monarchy
12
The Kingdom of England
13
Wales and Ireland
14 The Kingdom of the Scots
15
The Iberian kingdoms
16
The states of eastern and northern Europe
17
The Crusader States
Part IV Perceptions of the world
18
The medieval world view
19
Intellectual life
20
Art and society
21
Western Christendom and the wider world
Biography
Malcolm Barber is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of books on the Templars, the Cathars and the Crusader States in the twelfth century, and the co-author of texts on the Templars, letters from the East in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (with Keith Bate) and Ambroise's history of the Holy War (with Marianne Ailes). He taught history at the University of Reading for nearly forty years until his retirement in 2005.
