Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor Emerita, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of many books, including Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions (600-1700), What Is the History of Emotions? (with Riccardo Cristiani), The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (with Elina Gertsman), A Short History of the Middle Ages, and Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World.
List of Maps List of Plates List of Genealogies List of Figures Abbreviations, Date Conventions, Website Acknowledgments 1. Prelude: The Roman World Transformed (c.300-c.600) 2. The Emergence of Sibling Cultures (c.600-c.750) 3. Creating New Identities (c.750-c.900) 4. Political Communities Reordered (c.900-c.1050) 5. New Configurations (c.1050-c.1150) 6. Institutionalizing Aspirations (c.1150-c.1250) 7. Tensions and Reconciliations (c.1250-c.1350) 8. Catastrophe and Creativity (c.1350-c.1500) Sources Index