Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. On Roman Attitudes toward Barbarians in Late Antiquity 1
4. Ostrogothic Geographers at the Court of Theodoric the Great: A Study of Some Sources of the Anonymous Cosmographer of Ravenna 27
5. The Earlier Medieval Plague in the British Isles 65
6. Ships, Shipping, and the Implications of Change in the Early Medieval Mediterranean 79
7. A Study in Feudal Politics: Relations between Fulk Nerra and William the Great, 995-1030 111
8. The Ideal Depiction of Charlemagne in “La Chanson de Roland” 123
9. The Indian and Pseudo-Indian Passages in Greek and Latin Astronomical and Astrological Texts 141
10. The Role of Alfred of Sareshel (Alfredus Anglicus) and His Commentary on the Metheora in the Reacquisition of Aristotle 197
11. The Origins of the European Nobility: The Problem of the Ministeriais 211
12. Some Observations on the Origins of the Flemish Bailiff (Bailli): The Reign of Philip of Alsace 243
13. The Privileged Villeins of the English Ancient Demesne 295
14. Rural Population and the Tuscan Economy in the Late Middle Ages 329
15. In Quest of the Vera Ecclesia: The Crises of Late Medieval Ecclesiology 347
16. The Death of Merlin in the Chronicle of Elis Gruffydd 379
17. Scholastic Opposition to Humanism in Pre-Reformation Germany 391
18. Changing Assumptions in Later Renaissance Culture 421
19. Calvinist Thomism 441
20. Viator Style Sheet 456