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Adams, Henry. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. Various publishers, Classic account of the coherence of all aspects of medieval life; first published privately 1904.

Durant, Will. The Age of Faith. Simon & Schuster, 1950. History of medieval Christian, Islamic, and Judaic civilization, 325 to 1300.

Gies, Joseph and Gies, Frances. Life in Medieval Times. Harper, 1989. An excellent work recreating medieval life by two scholars of the period.

Holmes, George, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe. Oxford, 1988. Written by leading scholars; includes many illustrations.

Huizinga, Johan. The Waning of the Middle Ages. Harper, 1956. Brilliant study by Dutch historian; shows how different the world of Northern Europe was from Italy in 14th and 15th centuries.

Labarge, Margaret Wade. A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life. Beacon, 1986. Thoughtful work on women of all classes in France, England, Germany, and the Low Countries.

Lopez, Robert. The Birth of Europe. M. Evans, 1967. The beginning of this entity from later Roman Empire through medieval period.

Matthew, Donald. Atlas of Medieval Europe. Facts on File, 1983. Covers Europe's political, cultural, social, and religious history and includes maps, a glossary, and choronology.

Painter, Sidney. Medieval Society. Paperbook, rev., 1991. “Everyday Life in the Middle Ages” (title page).

Previté-Orton, C. W., ed. The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History. Cambridge, 1975. Condensation of detailed, eight-volume reference.

Southern, Richard. The Making of the Middle Ages. Yale, 1953. Brilliant study of medieval society, religion, government, culture.

Tierney, Brian, and Painter, Sidney. Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Knopf, Economic, political, religious, and social aspects.

Tuchman, Barbara W. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. Knopf, Ballantine, 1978. 1980. Major account focusing on the life of a French knight.

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