R.C. Davis provided the classic account of the European medieval world; equipping generations of undergraduate and 'A' level students with sufficient grasp of the period to debate diverse historical perspectives and reputations. His book has been important grounding for both modernists required to take a course in medieval history, and those who seek to specialise in the medieval period.

In updating this classic work to a third edition, the additional author now enables students to see history in action; the diverse viewpoints and important research that has been undertaken since Davis' second edition, and progressed historical understanding. Each of Davis original chapters now concludes with a 'new directions and developments' section by Professor RI Moore, Emeritus of Newcastle University.

A key work updated in a method that both enhances subject understanding and sets important research in its wider context. A vital resource, now up-to-date for generations of historians to come.

R. H. C. Davis, R. I. Moore, Joanna, Huntington

Part 1 The Dark Ages; Introduction; Chapter 1 Constantine the Great; Chapter 2 The barbarian invasions; Chapter 3 Three reactions to the barbarian invasions; Chapter 4 The Church and the Papacy; Chapter 5 Islam; Chapter 6 The Franks; Chapter 7 The break-up of the Carolingian Empire; Chapter 8 Europe at the end of the ninth century; Part 2 The High Middle Ages 900-1250; Introduction; Chapter 9 The Saxon Empire; Chapter 10 The reform of the Papacy; Chapter 11 Monasticism in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; Chapter 12 Jerusalem regained and lost; Chapter 13 Feudal monarchy and the French Kingdom (1066-1223); Chapter 14 The Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (1152-1190); Chapter 15 The crisis of the Church; Chapter 16 The new era in monarchy; Chapter 17 Europe in the middle of the thirteenth century;