| List of Maps | p. XXIV |
| List of Boxes | p. XXVII |
| Books Related Interest | p. XXX |
| Preface | p. XXXI |
| Introduction | p. XXXVII |
| Breakdown and Renewal in an Age of Plague | |
| Population Catastrophes Demographic Decline | |
| Plague | |
| Economic Depression and Recovery Agricultural Specialization | |
| Protectionism | |
| Technological Advances | |
| The Standard of Living | |
| Popular Unrest Rural Revolts | |
| Urban Revolts | |
| The Seeds of Discontent | |
| Challenges of the Governments of Europe Roots of Political Unrest | |
| The Nobility and Factional Strife | |
| England, France, and the Hundred Years' War | |
| The Tides of the Battle | |
| The Effectors of the Hundred Years' War | |
| The States of Italy | |
| The Fall of Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire The Fall of Constantinople | |
| Tradition and Change in European Culture, 1300-1500 | |
| The New Learning The Founding of Humanism | |
| Humanism in the Fifteenth Century | |
| The Florentine Neoplatonists | |
| The Heritage of the New Learning | |
| Art and the Artists in the Italian Renaissance Three Friends | |
| The High Renaissance | |
| Status and Perception | |
| The Culture of the NorthChivalry and Decay | |
| Contemporary Views of Northern Society | |
| Art and Music | |
| Scholastic Philosophy, Religious Thought, and Piety The 'Modern Way' | |
| Social and Scientific Thought | |
| The State of Christendom Styles of Piety | |
| Movements of Doctrinal Reform | |
| Reformations in Religion | |
| Piety and DissentDoctrine and Reform | |
| Causes of Discontent | |
| Popular Religion | |
| Piety and Protest in Literature and Art | |
| Christian Humanism | |
| The Lutheran ReformationThe Conditions for Change | |
| Martin Luther | |
| The Break with Rome | |
| Lutheran Doctrine and Practice | |
| The Spread of Lutheranism | |
| Lutheranism Established | |
| The Spread of Protestantism Zwingli and the Radicals | |
| Persecution of the Radicals | |
| John Calvin | |
| Calvinism | |
| The Anglican Church | |
| The Catholic RevivalStrengths and Weaknesses | |
| The Council of Trent | |
| The Aftermath of Trent | |
| Ignatius Loyola | |
| Religion and Politics | |
| Economic Expansion and a New Politics | |
| Expansion at HomePopulation Increase | |
| Economic Growth | |
| Social Change | |
| Expansion OverseasThe Portuguese | |
| The Spaniards | |
| The First Colonial Empire | |
| The Centralization of Political Powers Tudor England | |
| Louis XI and Charles VIII | |
| The Growth of Government Powers | |
| United Spain | |
| Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | |
| The Splintered States | |
| The New StatecraftNew International Relations | |
| Machiavelli and Guicciardini | |
| War and Crisis | |
| Rivalry and War in the Age of Philip II Elizabeth I of England | |
| The Dutch Revolt | |
| Civil War in France | |
| From Unbounded War to International Crisis The Thirty years' War | |
| The Peace of Westphalia | |
| The Military Revolution Weapons and Tactics | |
| The Organization and Support of Armies | |
| The Life of the Soldier | |
| Revolution in EnglandPressures for Change | |
| Parliament and Law | |
| Rising Antagonisms | |
| England Under Cromwell | |
| Revolts in France and SpainThe France of Henry IV | |
| Louis XIII | |
| Political and Social Crisis | |
| The Fronde | |
| Sources of Discontent in Spain | |
| Revolt and Secession | |
| Political Change in an Age of Crisis The Unites Provinces | |
| Sweden | |
| Eastern Europe and the Crisis | |
| Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution | |
| Scientific Advance from Copernicus to Newton Origins of the Scientific Revolution | |
| The Breakthroughs | |
| The Climax of the Scientific Revolution: Isaac Newton | |
| The Effects of the Discoveries The New Epistemology | |
| Bacon and Descartes | |
| Pascal's Protest Against New Sciences | |
| Science Institutionalized | |
| The Arts and Literature Unsettling Art | |
| Unsettling Writers | |
| The Return of Assurance to the Arts | |
| Stability and Restraint in the Arts | |
| Social Patterns and Popular Culture Popular Trends | |
| Social Status | |
| Mobility and Crime | |
| Changes in the Villages and Cities | |
| Belief in Magic and Rituals | |
| Forces of Restraint/Conclusion | |
| The Emergence of the European State System | |
| Absolutism in France The Rule of Louis X | |
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