A source book of mediæval history : documents illustrative of European life and institutions from the German invasions to the renaissance

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 504 pages ; 21 cm Includes bibliographical references and index The early Germans. -- The Visigothic invasion. -- The Huns. -- The early Franks. -- The Angles and Saxons in Britain. -- The development of the Christian church. -- The rise of Mohammedanism. -- The beginnings of the Carolingian Dynasty of Frankish kings. -- The age of Charlemagne. -- The era of the later Carolingians. -- Alfred the Great in war and in peace. -- The ordeal. -- The feudal system. -- The Norman Conquest. -- The monastic reformation of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. -- The conflict over investiture. -- The Crusades. -- The Great Charter. -- The reign of Saint Louis. -- Municipal organization and activity. -- Universities and student life. -- The friars. -- The papacy and the temporal powers in the later Middle Ages. -- The empire in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries. -- The Hundred Years' War. -- The beginnings of the Italian Renaissance. -- Foreshadowings of the Reformation