Originally published in English in 1964, this book threw new light on the positive value and significance of the Middle Ages. It discusses Constantine and the triumph of Christianity; the clash between the German tribes and Roman civilization; the final bids for power and the final crisis of the medieval world.
Originally published in English in 1964, this book threw new light on the positive value and significance of the Middle Ages. It discusses Constantine and the triumph of Christianity; the clash between the German tribes and Roman civilization at the time of Stilicho and Alaric; the confrontation between Germanic Arianism and Roman Catholicism; St. Benedict and the foundation of Western monasticism; Charlemagne and the foundation of Europe; Otto II and the feudal empire; the expansion of the Christian world and the first Crusade; the final bids for power and the final crisis of the medieval world.
1.The Middle Ages
2. The Christian Empire
3. The Germans Stilicho and
Alaric
4. German Arianism and Roman Catholicism Clovis and Theodoric
5.
Monastic Life in the West St. Benedict
6. The Roman Church St. Gregory
the Great
7. The Iconoclastic Struggle Rome and Byzantium
8. The Foundation
of Europe Charlemagne
9. Medieval Particularism Alberic II
10. The Feudal
Empire Otto III
11. The Recovery of the Church and its Resistance to
Feudalism Gregory VII
12. The Expansion of the Catholic World The First
Crusade
13. The Last Bid for Power of the Medieval Empire Henry VI
14. The
Last Bid for Power of the Medieval Empire Boniface VIII
15. The Crisis of
the Medieval World
16. Conclusion.
Giorgio Falco (1888-1966) was an Italian historian and Professor of History at the University of Genoa.
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