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| German History in the High Middle Ages--Concepts, Explanations, Facts | |
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| The three 'essentials' of history--space, time, and man | |
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| The medieval view of space, time, and man | |
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| Space, time, man: facts and findings | |
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| Germany in the Europe of the high Middle Ages | |
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| Middle Ages and 'high Middle Ages'--Europe and the 'West' | |
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| Germany, the Germans and their neighbours | |
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| The economy of the Empire | |
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| The period from 1050 to 1200 as a turning-point in European and German history | |
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| 'Progress and Promise': The German Empire in the Mid Eleventh Century | |
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| Social stratification and the structure of government in the Ottonian and Salian period | |
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| Rex et sacerdos--the priestly kingship of Henry III (1039-56) | |
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| Strengths and weaknesses of Salian kingship | |
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| Henry III as Roman patricius and the German popes | |
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| The beginnings and aims of church reform | |
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| The distance from the rest of Europe: France, England, and the North | |
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| From Christus Domini to Antichrist: The King of Germany and the Investiture Contest | |
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| The reign of Henry IV and its consequences | |
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| The papacy and the regency government | |
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| Canossa: the turning-point | |
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| The Libelli de lite and the beginnings of scholastic thought | |
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| The expansion of the West and the First Crusade | |
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| The town as an institution and a way of life | |
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| The rise of the secular state and the priestly church | |
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| The Investiture Contest in France and England | |
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| The beginnings of Henry V's reign | |
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| The road to the Concordat of Worms (1122) | |
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| Political Reorientation and Emergent Diversity: From Salian Imperial Church System to Staufer Kingship | |
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| The results of the Investiture Contest | |
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| The kingdom of Germany | |
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| The rest of Europe | |
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| 'The love of learning and the desire for God': church and spirituality in the age of Bernard of Clairvaux | |
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| Lother III: kingship without a future | |
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| Lothar as a 'legal antiking' | |
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| Lother III and the position on the eastern frontier | |
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| Conrad III: kingship without imperial glory | |
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| Conrad's election and the Welf opposition | |
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| European alliances and the Second Crusade | |
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| The Centre-Point of the German Middle Ages: Frederick Barbarossa and His Age | |
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| The election of Frederick I and the new policy of balance | |
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| Frederick and the Empire before the Alexandrine schism | |
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| The revival of imperial rule in imperial Italy and the breach with the Curia | |
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| Frederick's German policy | |
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| The Staufer idea of empire | |
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| Empire and papacy in the struggle for supremacy | |
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| Papal schism and diplomacy to the death of Alexander III (1181) | |
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| Staufer government in Germany | |
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| New forms of government | |
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| The fall of Henry the Lion and the so-called 'new estate of imperial princes' | |
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| Kingship and feudalism in France and England | |
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| International alliances and the Third Crusade | |
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| The chivalric ethos of the Staufer period | |
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| Henry VI and the shift in the Empire's centre of gravity | |
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| The German kingdom and the Sicilian inheritance | |
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| Plans and beginnings | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |