The history of the Renaissance world: from the rediscovery of Aristotle to the conquest of Constantinople

Renaissances. Logic and compromise : England, Rome, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1100-1122 ; The Crusader enemy : Byzantium, Venice, and the Crusader kingdoms, 1100-1138 ; Anarchy : England, Western Francia, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1120-1139 ; The lost homeland : China, Dai Viet, and Khmer, 1127-1150 ; Crusade resurrected : The Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, with visitations from Germany and France, 1128-1149 ; Reconquista and rediscovery : The Spanish peninsula, 1134-1146 ; Questions of authority : France and Italy, 1135-1160 ; The new song : China, 1141-1165 ; The Heiji disturbance : Japan, 1142-1159 ; Death of an army : Goryeo, 1146-1197 ; The first Plantagenet : England and Western Francia, 1147-1154 ; Frederick Barbarossa : Germany and Italy, 1147-1177 ; The Almohads in Spain ; North Africa and Spain, 1147-1177 ; "Many nations" : Africa, sometime in the twelfth century ; The last Fatimid caliph : the Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, 1149-1171 ; Monks and Brahmans : South India, 1150-1189 ; Conquest of the willing : Northern India, 1150-1202 ; Death of a priest : England and France, 1154-1170 ; Foreign relations : Byzantium, Hungary, and the Balkans, 1157-1168 ; The Venetian problem : Byzantium and Italy, 1171-1185 ; Resentments : England, Ireland, and France, 1171-1186 ; Saladin : the Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, 1171-1188 ; The Gempei War : Japan, 1179-1185 ; Kings' crusade : England, France, and the Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, 1188-1199 ; The sack of Constantinople : Byzantium and Europe, 1195-1204

Invasions, heresies, and uprisings. Westward : Central and South America, 1200 ; The Mongol school of warfare : China, North and Central Asia, 1201-1215 ; John Softsword : England and France, 1203-1213 ; Sundiata of the Mali : Africa, 1203-1240 ; The Jokyu War : Japan, 1203-1242 ; The unwanted throne : the old Byzantine lands, 1203-1225 ; The first Delhi sultanate : Northern and central India, 1206-1236 ; Heresy : France, 1209-1210 ; Reconquest and failure : France and the Spanish peninsula, 1210-1213 ; From Bouvines to Magna Carta : France, England, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1213-1217 ; The birth of the Inquisition : France, 1215-1229 ; Moving westward : China, North and Central Asia, and the Middle East, 1215-1229 ; South of India : India and Sri Lanka, 1215-1283 ; The fifth crusade : Egypt and the Crusader kingdoms, 1217-1221 ; From the golden bull to the Baltic Crusade : Hungary, Poland, and the lands of the Lithuanians, 1218-1233 ; Lakeshores, highlands, and hilltops : Africa, 1221-1290 ; The sixth crusade : The Holy Roman Empire, the Crusader kingdoms, and the Ayyubid empire, 1223-1229 ; The Tran Dynasty : southeast Asia, 1224-1257 ; Young kings : England, France, and the kingdoms of Spain, 1227-1242 ; The Mongol horde ; Most of Asia and Europe, 1229-1248 ; The debt of hatred : the Holy Roman Empire, 1229-1250 ; The shadow of God : India, 1236-1266 ; The seventh crusade : France, Egypt, and Syria, 1244-1250 ; The splintering Khanate : the Mongol conquests, 1246-1264 ; The Mamluks of Egypt : Egypt, Syria, and the Mongol lands, 1250-1268 ; Louis the Saint : France and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1250-1267 ; The Lion's den : Germany, Italy, Sicily, and England, 1252-1273 ; The recapture of Constantinople : the Latin Empire and the empire of Nicaea, 1254-1261 ; The last crusades : North Africa, Egypt, France, Italy, and the Crusader kingdoms, 1270-1291 ; Kublai Khan : China, Japan, Goryeo, Champa, and the Dai Viet, 1273-1294 ; The Sicilian vespers : Germany, Italy, Sicily, Aragon, and France, 1274-1288 ; The wars of Edward I : England, Scotland, Wales, and France, 1275-1299 ; The second sultanate of Delhi : India, 1287-1300 ; The end of the papal monarchy : France, Germany, and Italy, 1301-1317 ; The appearance of the Ottomans : Byzantium and the Turks of the Il-khanate, 1302-1347 ; The fall of the Khilji : India, 1303-1320 ; The triumph of the Bruce : Scotland, England, and Ireland, 1304-1314

Catastrophes. The Great Famine : all of Europe, 1310-1321 ; The Sultan and the Khan : Egypt, the Il-khanate, and the Golden Horde, 1310-1335 ; Mansa Musa of Mali : West Africa, 1312-1360 ; After the famine : France and England, 1318-1330 ; The southern and northern courts : Japan, 1318-1339 ; Rebellions : India, 1320-1351 ; Naming the Renaissance : Germany, Italy, and France, 1322-1341 ; The cities in the lake : Central America, 1325-1375 ; A hundred years of war : France and England, 1329-1347 ; The end of the world : Asia, Europe, and India, 1338-1353

Regroupings. The will to war : France, England, the Spanish kingdoms, 1349-1369 ; White lotus, red turban : China, 1351-1382 ; After the Mongols : Southeast Asia, 1351-1399 ; The Turks and the desperate emperor : Byzantium and the lands of the Turks, with side journeys to France and Italy ; The disintegration of Delhi : India and Sri Lanka, 1352-1388 ; The union of Krewo : Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania, 1364-1399 ; The rebirth of the Mongol horde : Central Asia, the Middle East, India, and the lands of the Rus', 1367-1399 ; Compromises and settlements : the Korean peninsula and Japan, 1368-1392 ; The House of Visconti and the Papal States : France and Italy, 1368-1392 ; Bad beginnings : France and England, 1369-1381 ; Dislocation : Africa, 1370-1399 ; Madness and usurpation : Castile, Portugal, England, and France, 1383-1401 ; The Battle of Nicopolis : The Ottoman empire, Constantinople, and the lands of eastern Europe, 1385-1396 ; The union and disunion of Kalmar : Scandinavia, 1387-1449 ; The Hussite uprising : Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bohemia, 1388-1419 ; The taking of France : France and England, 1401-1420 ; After Timurlane : The north of India, the empire of Timur, the lands of the Ottoman Turks, Egypt, and Byzantium, 1401-1415

Endings. The withdrawal of the Ming : China and the land of the Dai Viet, 1405-1455 ; Failure : The old lands of the Holy Roman Empire and the remnants of Byzantium, 1412-1440 ; Perpetual slavery : Portugal, Castile, and Africa, 1415-1455 ; The loss of France : France and England, 1422-1453 ; The fall : the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, along with Hungary, Germany, Wallachia, Bohemia, and Serbia, 1430-1453.