Defining spirituality as 'the dynamic unity between the content of a faith and the way in which it is lived by historically determined human beings', Vauchez steps outside the clerical world usually studied to trace the religious mentality of the laity, the ordinary and often illiterate majority of Christians.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS (page 5)
• INTRODUCTION (page 7)
• I THE GENESIS OF MEDIEVAL SPIRITUALITY (page 11)
• II THE MONASTIC AND FEUDAL AGE (page 35)
• III THE RELIGION OF A NEW ERA (page 75)
• IV MEDIEVAL MAN IN SEARCH OF GOD (page 145)
• V REFLECTIONS (page 163)
• TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS (page 171)
• BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 173)
• INDEX (page 179)