A translation of a comprehensive textbook on the history of Europe during the entire Middle Ages, 300-1550. Structured thematically, from the Roman Inheritance to the crisis in the Church and reorientation of the faithful, 1250-1500, it is truely pan European in its geographic coverage. Full of user-friendly textbook apparatus, such as boxed case studies, maps, chronology, tables, further reading and a wealth of photographs and engravings, it will be essential reading for anyone studying medieval European history.