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100 1  Bauer, Susan Wise. 
245 14 The history of the medieval world :|bfrom the conversion 
       of Constantine to the First Crusade /|cSusan Wise Bauer. 
250    1st ed. 
260    New York :|bW.W. Norton,|cc2010. 
300    xxii, 746 p. :|bill., maps, plans ;|c25 cm. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Unity: One empire, under God ; Seeking the mandate of 
       Heaven ; An empire of the mind ; The Persian threat ; The 
       apostate ; Earthquake and invasion ; Refounding the 
       Kingdom ; The Catholic church -- Fractures: Excommunicated
       ; Cracked in two ; The sack of Rome ; One nature versus 
       two ; Seeking a homeland ; The Gupta decline ; Northern 
       ambitions ; The Huns ; Attila ; Orthodoxy ; The high kings
       ; The end of the Roman myth -- New powers: The Ostrogoths 
       ; Byzantium ; Aspirations ; Resentment ; Elected Kings ; 
       Invasion and eruption ; The Americas ; Great and holy 
       majesty ; Pestilence ; The heavenly sovereign ; 
       Reunification ; The South Indian kings ; Two emperors ; 
       The mayors of the palaces ; Gregory the Great ; The 
       Persian crusade ; The prophet ; Tang dominance ; The tribe
       of faith ; Intersection ; The troubles of empire -- States
       and kingdoms: Law and language ; Creating the past ; The 
       days of the empress ; Paths into Europe ; The Kailasa of 
       the South ; Purifications ; The Abbasids ; Charlemagne ; 
       The An Lushan rebellion ; Imperator et Augustus ; The new 
       Sennacherib ; Castle lords and regents ; The triumph of 
       the outsiders ; The third dynasty ; The Vikings ; Long-
       lived kings ; Foreign and domestic relations ; The second 
       caliphate ; The great army of the Vikings ; Struggle for 
       the iron crown ; Kampaku ; Basileus ; The creation of 
       Normandy ; The kingdom of Germany ; The turn of the wheel 
       ; The capture of Baghdad ; Three kingdoms ; Kings of 
       England ; The baptism of the Rus -- Crusades: The holy 
       Roman emperor ; The hardship of sacred war ; Basil the 
       Bulgar-slayer ; Defending the mandate ; The new found land
       ; Schism ; Danish domination ; The Norman conquest ; The 
       kings of Spain ; The arrival of the Turks ; The loss of 
       the song ; Repentance at Canossa ; The call ; Fighting for
       Jerusalem ; Aftershocks. 
520    From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the 
       rise of the T'ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to 
       the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the 
       fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and 
       the peoples they ruled. In her earlier work, The History 
       of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise 
       of kingship based on might. But in the years between the 
       fourth and the twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new 
       justification for their power, and they turned to divine 
       truth or grace to justify political and military action--
       right thus replaces might as the engine of empire. Not 
       just Christianity and Islam but the religions of the 
       Persians and the Germans, and even Buddhism, are pressed 
       into the service of the state. This phenomenon--stretching
       from the Americas all the way to Japan--changes religion, 
       but it also changes the state.--From publisher 
       description. 
650  0 Middle Ages. 
650  0 Civilization, Medieval.