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| List of maps and genealogical tables | |
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| Chronology of main events, 238-1000 | |
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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Preface to the third edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Crisis and change in the Roman Empire, 235-305 | |
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| Turbulent times, 235-85 | |
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| The reforms of Diocletian, 285-305 | |
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| The age of Constantine, 305-50 | |
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| The emperor and his rivals, 305-12 | |
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| Constantine and Christianity | |
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| Conflict and succession, 324-50 | |
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| Protecting the Empire, 350-95 | |
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| Frontier defence, 350-61 | |
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| Julian the Reactionary, 361-3 | |
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| Civil wars, 363-95 | |
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| From the battle of Adrianople to the sack of Rome, 378-410 | |
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| 'The coming of the Hunus' | |
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| The Goths and the Empire, 376-95 | |
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| Stilicho or Honorius? Alternative strategies, 395-410 | |
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| A divided city: the Christian Church, 300-460 | |
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| Conflicts in Church and state | |
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| Authority is given to Peter | |
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| Monasticism | |
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| The warlords | |
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| Gual or Africa? 410-54 | |
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| The end of the Western Expire, 455-80 | |
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| The fall of Rome? | |
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| The new kingdoms | |
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| Roman generals and barbarian kings | |
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| The Gothic kingdom in Italy | |
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| Clovis and the Franks | |
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| The twilight of the West, 518-68 | |
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| Prelude in Constantinople and Rome | |
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| Justinian I and Africa, 527-33 | |
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| The Italian reconquest, 535-53 | |
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| Constantinople, Persia and the Arabs | |
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| Rome's eastern neighbours | |
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| Islam and the Arab conquests | |
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| Decadent and do-nothing kings, 511-711 | |
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| The Gothic kingdom in Spain, c. 589-711 | |
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| Gual and the Merovingians, c. 511-687 | |
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| From Britain to the kingdoms of the Angles, 410-874 | |
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| A 'dark age', 410-597 | |
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| New Christian kingdoms, 598-685 | |
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| The Mercian hegemony,633-874 | |
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| The Lombards in Italy, c. 540-72 | |
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| Conquering Italy, 540-72 | |
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| Dukes and kings, 572-84 | |
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| The kingdom of the Lombards, 584-712 | |
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| The parting of East and West | |
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| An end to cultural unity | |
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| The role of Iconoclasm | |
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| Rome between Constantinople and Francia | |
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| Monks and missionaries | |
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| The growth of western monasticism | |
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| The Irish Church | |
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| Spreading the word | |
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| Francia revived, 714-68 | |
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| Charles 'the Hammer' and the recovery of Francia, 714-41 | |
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| Regaining the periphery: Pippin 'the Short', 741-68 | |
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| Charlemagne, 768-814 | |
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| The route to the imperial throne, 768-800 | |
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| The meaning of Empire, 800-14 | |
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| The Carolingian regime | |
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| The apparatus of government | |
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| The ideological programme | |
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| Chroniclers of a warlike society | |
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| 'The dissension of kings', 814-911 | |
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| Louis the Pious, 814-40 | |
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| Kings and emperors in the West, 840-911 | |
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| 'The desolation of the pagans' | |
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| Raiders and traders | |
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| The Vikings and Francia | |
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| The Vikings and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms | |
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| Conversion and expansion | |
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| The western frontiers of Christendom: Spain, 711-1037 | |
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| The Christians of al-Andalus | |
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| The kingdoms of northern Spain, c. 718-910 | |
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| The kingdoms of Le� and the county of Castille, 910-1037 | |
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| The Empire revived, 875-1002 | |
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| Italy, 875-961 | |
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| Germany: the kingdom and the duchies, 911-62 | |
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| The eastwards expansion of Europe | |
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| Emperor and pope | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |