CONTENTS
Part l.THE FORMATION OF MEDIEVAL CIVILISATION IN THE 4,h-10,h CENTURIES
1. Byzantium - the Christian Empire of New Rome 4
2. The Migration Period 6
3. Barbarian Kingdoms in Early Medieval Western Europe 8
4. The Emergence of Islam 10
5. The Arab Caliphate 12
6. Charlemagne - the New Emperor of the West 14
7. The Roman Church in the Early Middle Ages 16
8. Disintegration of the Carolingian Empire. Norman Migrations 18
9. The Emergence of Feudalism in Western Europe 20
The Beginning of Christian Europe (revision) 22
Part IS. BYZANTIUM AND BULGARIA iNTHE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
10. The Rebirth of Byzantium 24
11. Pagan Bulgaria in Early Medieval Europe 26
12. The Rise of Christian Bulgaria . 28
13. Byzantium under the Macedonian Dynasty 30
14. The Decline of the First Bulgarian Kingdom 32
15. Society and Everyday Life in Byzantium 35
Byzantium and Bulgaria (7th - beginning of the 11th century) (revision) 36
Part III. WESTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE INTHE 9th-15th CENTURIES
16. Medieval Towns in Western Europe 38
17. Social Structure of the Medieval West 40
18. The Crusades 42
19. The Holy Roman Empire of the German Kings 44
20. The Chri stian Republic of the Holy See 46
21. Centralisation of the Kingdom of France 48
22. England - from Magna Carta to Parliament 50
23. Arab Spain and the Reconquista 52
24. East Central Europe - Frontier of the Western World .. 54
25. Economy of the Medieval West 56
Western Europe in the 11th—15th Centuries (revision) 58
Part IV. BYZANTIUM AND THE ORTHODOX EAST INTHE 11 th-15th CENTURIES
26. Byzantium in the 11th- 12th Centuries 60
27. The Bulgarian Kingdom under the Asen Dynasty (1185—1241) 62
28. Bulgaria (1241-1371) - Crises and Attempts to Stabilise the Kingdom 64
29. Everyday Life of Medieval Bulgarians 66
30. The Orthodox East in the 11th-15th Centuries 68
31. Decline of the Byzantine Empire 70
32. Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans ' 72