List of plates; List of line drawings; List of maps; List of genealogical tables; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Part I. General Themes: 1. Introduction Michael Jones; 2. The theory and practice of government in western Europe Albert Rigaudière; 3. Currents of religious thought and expression Jeremy Catto; 4. The universities Jacques Verger; 5. Rural society Paul Freedman; 6. Urban life Jean-Pierre Leguay; 7. Plague and family life Christiane Klapisch-Zuber; 8. Trade in fourteenth-century Europe Peter Spufford; 9. Chivalry and the aristocracy Maurice Keen; 10. Court patronage and international gothic Paul Binski; 11. Architecture Paul Crossley; 12. Literature in Italian, French and English: uses and muses of the vernacular Nick Havely; Part II. The States of the West: 13. The British Isles (a) England: Edward II and Edward III Mark Ormrod; (b) The reign of Richard II Caroline M. Barron; (c) Wales A. D. Carr; (d) Fourteenth-century Scotland Alexander Grant (e) Ireland Robin Frame; 14. France (a) The last Capetians and the early Valois kings, 1314-64 Michael Jones; (b) France under Charles V and Charles VI Françoise Autrand; 15. Italy in the age of Dante and Petrarch (a) the north John Law; (b) Florence and the republican tradition Louis Green; (c) The Italian south David Abulafia; 16. The Empire (a) From Adolph I to Lewis of Bavaria, 1292-1347 Peter Herde; (b) The Luxemburgs and Rupert of the Palatinate, 1347-1410 Ivan Hlavacek; 17. The Low Countries, 1290-1415 Walter Prevenier; 18. The Iberian Peninsula (a) The crown of Aragon Alan Forey; (b) Castile, Navarre and Portugal Peter Linehan; Part III. The Church and Politics: 19. The Avignon papacy Patrick Zutshi; 20. The Great Schism Howard Kaminsky; Part IV. Northern and Eastern Europe: 21. Baltic Europe S. C. Rowell; 22. The kingdoms of central Europe in the fourteenth century Claude Michaud; 23. The principalities of Rus' in the fourteenth century Nancy Shields Kollmann; 24. The Byzantine empire in the fourteenth century Angeliki E. Laiou; 25. Latins in the Aegean and the Balkans in the fourteenth century Michel Balard; 26. The rise of the Ottomans I. Metin Kunt; 27. Christians and Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean Peter Edbury; Appendix; Primary sources and secondary works arranged by chapter; Index.