Larousse Encyclopedia of Ancient and Medieval History

Man Before History The Ancient World Eastern Peoples and Empires - The First Historical Peoples - The Early Civilisations of the East - The Birth of New Nations - Conflict between East and West The Supremacy of the Eastern Mediterranean - The Age of Pericles - The Age of Discord - The Macedonian Epic - The Hellenistic Monarchies The Great Empires of Antiquity - The Birth of Imperialism - The Age of Caesar - Pax Romana and Pax Sinica The Decline of the Ancient World The Middle Ages The Barbarian Invasions - The Destruction of the Roman World - The Restoration of Stable Empires - The Arabs - The End of Invasions The Rise of Europe - The Awakening - The Beginning of Europe's Expansion - Western Europe in the Thirteenth Century - Fringe Europe and Islam in the Thirteenth Century The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries - Religious and Political Change in Western Europe - On the Fringe of Europe - Mongol Decline and Islam's Revenge - Pre-Columbian America Medieval Retrospect