Contents // Ust of maps and plans page vii // Preface ix // Ust of sources xi // Ust of abbreviations xvii // Introduction 1 // Part One The foundations of Christian Latin 5 // Section 1: Education 7 // Section 2: Liturgy and Divine Office 18 // Section 3: The Bible 29 // Section 4: The Church Fathers 43 // Section 5: The new Christian genres 57 // Part Two Early Medieval Latin 67 // Section 6: Hibemo-Latin 70 // Section 7: Anglo-Latin 93 // Section 8: Continental Latin 116 // Section 9: The Carolingian Renaissance 133 // Section 10: The Ottoman Renaissance 151 // Part Three From the end of the Ottoman Renaissance (1002) // to the Concordat of Worms (1122) 173 // Section 11: The Norman Conquest 175 // Section 12: The ‘investiture contest’ 192 // Section 13: The First Crusade 218 // Section 14: Philosophy and theology 230 // Section 15: Poetry 243 // vi Contents // Part Four The twelfth-century Renaissance 253 // Section 16: The schools and the scholastic method 255 // Section 17: The religious life 268 // Section 18: Theology and philosophy 296 // Section 19: Historical writing 310 // Section 20: Court literature 332 // Grammar 362 // Orthography 373 // Note on vocabulary 376 // Vocabulary 37g