Life and Work in Medieval Europe.

Cover -- Life And Work In Medieval Europe -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- AUTHOR'S PREFACE -- BOOK I -- CHAPTER I ROMAN EUROPE AND BARBARIAN EUROPE IN THE EARLY DARK AGES.-THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF THE INVADERS -- CHAPTER II THE INVASIONS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BARBARIAN KINGDOMS IN CHRISTIAN EUROPE.-RUIN OF THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RÉGIME OF ROME (FIFTH TO SEVENTH CENTURIES) -- CHAPTER III THE EAST ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF, EASTERN EUROPE FROM THE FIFTH TO THE TENTH CENTURY.-COLONIZATION AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION.-THE DIVISION OF PROPERTY AND RURAL CLASSES IN EASTERN EUROPE -- CHAPTER IV THE INIDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL HEGEMONY OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE DURING THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES -- CHAPTER V ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE OF BYZANTINE CIVILIZATION IN EAST AND WEST -- CHAPTER VI THE WORK OF CHURCH AND STATE IN THE REORGANIZATION OF LABOUR AND IN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESTORATION OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM DURING THE DARK AGES -- CHAPTER VII THE AGRARIAN ECONOMY OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM.-THE FIRST ATTEMPT AT COLONIZATION.-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND REPOPULATION FROM THE SEVENTH TO THE TENTH CENTURIES -- CHAPTER VIII EVOLUTION OF THE RÉGIME OF PROPERTY IN THE WEST FROM THE SEVENTH TO THE TENTH CENTURY.-THE DECLINE OF THE OLD FORMS OF LAND OWNERSHIP.-THE PROGRESS OF THE GREAT DOMAINS.-THE ATTACK ON SMALL PROPERTIES AND THE CLASS OF FREEMEN -- CHAPTER IX THE DEPENDENT RURAL CLASSES IN THE WEST.-THEIR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL CONDITION (SEVENTH TO TENTH CENTURY) -- CHAPTER X INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND EXCHANGE IN THE WEST DURING THE LAST CENTURIES OF THE DARK AGES.-PARTIAL RENAISSANCE OF AN URBAN ECONOMY -- BOOK II -- CHAPTER I THE FEUDAL RÉGIME IN THE WEST.-THE RULING CLASSES AND THE OWNERSHIP OF THE SOIL.