Part I. The Crucible of Europe: 1. The wars of Charlemagne 2. The Vikings in the ninth century 3. Tenth-century kingdoms: the growth of England, Germany, and France 4. The Danish conquest of England 980-1010 Part II. Western Europe in the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: 5. The Norman conquest of England 6. The Angevin empire 1154-1217 7. The German empire under Frederick Barbarossa 1152-1190 8. Thirteenth-century eastern Europe and the Mongols 9. Thirteenth-century English civil wars 10. England and the Celtic fringe: colonial warfare Part III. Expanding Europe: the Crusades: 11. The Reconquista and the Normans in the Mediterranean c.1050-1150 12. The First Crusade 13. The Latin states in the Holy Land 14. The resurgence of Islam and the Third Crusade 15. The Latin conquest of Constantinople 1201-1311 16. Spain and France in the thirteenth century 17. The Crusades in Africa in the thirteenth century Part IV. Europe Divided: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: 18. The Hundred Years' War: the fourteenth century 19. Italy and the Mediterranean arena c.1350-1480 20. The Hundred Years' War: the fifteenth century 21. The Hussite Wars and the later Crusades 22. The Wars of the Roses 1452-1487 23. The army and campaigns of Charles the Bold of Burgundy c.1465-1477 24. A military revolution? Appendix: theory and practice of warfare Glossary Further reading Chronology Index-gazetteer.