Table of Contents:
- The Roman world. Territory, people, and social conditions ; Imperial administration ; Imperial decline ; The imperial office
- The Teutonic world. The Teutonic peoples ; Visigoths, Huns, and Vandals ; Ostrogoths and Lombards ; The temporal sovereignty of the Popes ; The Franks and the Merovingian Age
- The Christian world. The establishment of Christianity ; The organization of the Church ; Doctrine of heresy ; The fathers of the Church ; Early monasticism ; Education ; Medicine, art, and music ; Philosophy, languages, and literature
- The feudal world. The Carolingian empire ; France and England from 987 to 1328 ; Germany and Italy in the age of emperors ; The origin and development of feudal institutions ; The Church in feudal society ; Agrarian economy ; Urban and commercial economy ; The social milieu ; The new monasticism ; The impact of Islam ; The struggle for the Holy Land
- The changing world. Europe in transition ; Germany in the age of princes ; England and France from 1328 to 1498 ; Economic and social trends ; Institutional developments.