Includes bibliographical references (p. 442-448) and index.

The quest for the Middle Ages. Between Rome and Renaissance ; Discovery and learning ; The Medieval mind ; Recognitions and formulations --
Law and society / Frederic William Maitland. A death in the Canary Islands ; Medievalism and modernism ; Present at the creation ; The reach of the common law --
The Nazi twins / Percy Ernst Schramm and Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz. Old Heidelberg ; In Hitler's shadow ; The imperial destiny ; The lost world of German idealism --
The French Jews / Louis Halphen and Marc Bloch. Flight and return ; The Mandarins ; Lords and peasants ; The long duration --
The Formalists / Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Robert Curtius. Formalism as interpretation and ideology ; The rise of iconology ; Fortune's child ; Preserving western civilization --
The Oxford fantasies / Clive Staples Lewis, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, and Frederic Maurice Powicke. Save the beloved land ; The medieval imagination ; The long journey ; A Proustian dreamworld --
American pie / Charles Homer Haskins and Joseph Reese Strayer. The Wilsonians ; The contours of medieval government ; The northern supermen ; Cold War liberalism and the medieval state --
After the fall / Michael David Knowled and Etienne Henry Gilson. Absoluting the Middle Ages ; The rebellious monk ; The nemesis of sanctity ; The Christian philosopher --
The once and future king / Richard William Southern. The claim of the ideal ; Looking for Camelot ; "For he is an Englishmen" ; The knights of the southern round table --
Outriders / Johan Huizinga, Eileen Edna Power, Michael Moissey Postan, Carl Erdmann, and Theodor Ernst Mommsen. Gorging out ; Postimpressionism ; The partnership ; Saying no and believing yes.

The lives, works, and ideas of the great medievalist of the twentieth century.

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