The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

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Acknowledgments

Part One

UNITY

One
One Empire, Under God
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The Roman empire, 312–330

Two
Seeking the Mandate of Heaven
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China, 313–402

Three
An Empire of the Mind
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India, 319–415

Four
The Persian Threat
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The Roman empire, the Persian empire, eastern Africa, and Arabia, 325–361

Five
The Apostate
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The Roman empire and the Persian empire, 361–364

Six
Earthquake and Invasion
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The Roman empire, the islands of Britain, and the Germanic territories, 364–376

Seven
Refounding the Kingdom
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The kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, 371–412

Eight
The Catholic Church
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The Roman empire, 378–382

Part Two

FRACTURES

Nine
Excommunicated
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The Roman empire, the islands of Britain, and the Persian empire, 383–392

Ten
Cracked in Two
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The Roman empire, 392–396

Eleven
The Sack of Rome
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The western Roman empire and the eastern Roman empire, 396–410

Twelve
One Nature versus Two
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The eastern Roman empire and the Persian empire, 408–431

Thirteen
Seeking a Homeland
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The western Roman empire and the Germanic territories, 410–418

Fourteen
The Gupta Decline
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India, 415–480

Fifteen
Northern Ambitions
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China, 420–464

Sixteen
The Huns
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The western Roman empire, the eastern Roman empire, the Germanic territories, the lands of the Huns, Hispania, and North Africa, 423–450

Seventeen
Attila
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The western Roman empire, the eastern Roman empire, the Germanic territories, and the lands of the Huns, 450–455

Eighteen
Orthodoxy
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The eastern Roman empire and the Persian empire, 451–454

Nineteen
The High Kings
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The islands of Britain, 451–470

Twenty
The End of the Roman Myth
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The western Roman empire and the Germanic territories, 454–476

Part Three

NEW POWERS

Twenty-One
The Ostrogoths
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The eastern Roman empire and Italy, 457–493

Twenty-Two
Byzantium
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The eastern Roman empire and the Persian empire, 471–518

Twenty-Three
Aspirations
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China and the kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, 471–527

Twenty-Four
Resentment
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China, 479–534

Twenty-Five
Elected Kings
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The kingdoms of the Franks, the Visigoths, the Vandals, the Ostrogoths, and the British, 481–531

Twenty-Six
Invasion and Eruption
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India and the southeastern islands of Sumatra and Java, 497–535

Twenty-Seven
The Americas
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Mesoamerica, c. 500–600

Twenty-Eight
Great and Holy Majesty
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Eastern Africa, Arabia, the Persian empire, and the Byzantine empire, 510–529

Twenty-Nine
Pestilence
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The Persian empire, the Byzantine empire, North Africa, and Italy, 532–544

Thirty
The Heavenly Sovereign
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The kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and Yamato Japan, 536–602

Thirty-One
Reunification
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China and Goguryeo, 546–612

Thirty-Two
The South Indian Kings
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India, 543–620

Thirty-Three
Two Emperors
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Italy, the kingdom of the Visigoths, the eastern Roman empire, the Persian empire, and Arabia, 551–579

Thirty-Four
The Mayors of the Palaces
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The kingdom of the Franks, 558–656

Thirty-Five
Gregory the Great
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Italy and the islands of Britain, 572–604

Thirty-Six
The Persian Crusade
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The eastern Roman empire, the Persian empire, and various kingdoms of Slavs, Bulgars, Avars, and Khazars, 589–632

Thirty-Seven
The Prophet
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Arabia, 590–622

Thirty-Eight
Tang Dominance
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China, Japan, the Turkish Khaghanates, and the kingdoms of Tibet, Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla, 622–676

Thirty-Nine
The Tribe of Faith
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Arabia, 622–642

Forty
Intersection
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India and Sri Lanka, 640–684

Forty-One
The Troubles of Empire
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Arabia, 643–661

Part Four

STATES AND KINGDOMS

Forty-Two
Law and Language
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Italy, the Byzantine empire, the First Bulgarian Empire, and the empire of the Umayyad caliphs, 643–702

Forty-Three
Creating the Past
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Japan, 661–714

Forty-Four
The Days of the Empress
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China, the kingdom of Tibet, and the Eastern Turkish Khaghanate, 683–712

Forty-Five
Paths into Europe
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The Byzantine empire, the Umayyad caliphate, the kingdoms of the Khazars, Bulgarians, and Visigoths, and the lands of the Franks, 705–732

Forty-Six
The Kailasa of the South
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The Umayyad caliphate and India, 712–780

Forty-Seven
Purifications
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The Umayyad caliphate, the Byzantine empire, and Italy, 718–741

Forty-Eight
The Abbasids
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The Umayyad caliphate, the kingdom of the Khazars, and al-Andalus, 724–763

Forty-Nine
Charlemagne
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Italy, the kingdom of the Franks, the lands of the Saxons, and al-Andalus, 737–778

Fifty
The An Lushan Rebellion
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China, the nomadic north, and the kingdoms of Tibet, Nanzhao, Balhae, and Unified Silla, 751–779

Fifty-One
Imperator et Augustus
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The Byzantine and Abbasid empires, the First Bulgarian Empire, Italy, and the kingdom of the Franks, 775–802

Fifty-Two
The New Sennacherib
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The Byzantine and Abbasid empires, the First Bulgarian Empire, and the kingdom of the Franks, 786–814

Fifty-Three
Castle Lords and Regents
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Silla and Japan, 790–872

Fifty-Four
The Triumph of the Outsiders
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China and Silla, 806–918

Fifty-Five
The Third Dynasty
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The Abbasid empire, 809–833

Fifty-Six
The Vikings
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The kingdoms of the Franks, the Byzantine empire, al-Andalus, and the lands of the Rus, 813–862

Fifty-Seven
Long-Lived Kings
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India and the southeastern islands of Sumatra and Java, 814–900

Fifty-Eight
Foreign and Domestic Relations
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The Byzantine empire, the kingdom of Louis the German, Moravia, and Bulgaria, 856–886