本书是欧洲中世纪史研究方面的经典著作，为美国数百所高校采用作为教材。 本书的一大特色是C·沃伦·霍利斯特清晰的历史观和动人的教学法，现经朱迪斯·本内特精到的修订而成第十版，覆盖了更多关于拜占庭和伊斯兰的内容，包含了经全面修订的系列地图、一组新的关于中世纪传说的短文等更多内容。在第八版的序言中，霍利斯特教授述及他在大学时意识到当今世界“是中世纪的产物”。《欧洲中世纪史》一书向今天的学生全面介绍了我们当前社会的中世纪根源。

《封建社会(套装上下册)》是研究封建社会的一部综合性巨著，它包括了西欧封建社会的经济、政治、文化心态等诸多结构。他明确地认为封建主义是一种社会类型（a type of society），并把它和日本的封建社会相比较，所以说他研究的是封建社会形态也是可以的（当然不是马克思主义的那种社会形态学说）。书中大量论述的是西欧的封建君臣关系、封土制、封建贵族等级等政治内容。

欧洲中世纪，过去曾经被我们认为是在愚昧的教士主宰之下的“黑暗时代”，“半梦半醒的一千年”。20世纪的史学家们已经终结了这一神话。在当代英语世界，《欧洲中世纪简史》是一本准确、权威的中世纪史入门佳作。它以清晰的线索、全面的描述让读者看到了中世纪的光明与活力。
作者将中世纪史析为早期（500—1000）、中期（1000—1300）、晚期（1300～1500）三阶段。在第一阶段，罗马皈依基督教之后，古典文化与基督教文化、日耳曼文化相融合，促成了欧洲的诞生。查理大帝一度雄霸西欧。第二阶级是中世纪的盛期，经济起飞，城市兴起，政治文教发达，三百年问精彩叠现。第三阶段两百年，教廷分裂，英法百年征战，哀鸿遍野，疫病流行，一片颓败之势。而瘟疫过后，欧洲文化重又焕发生机，宗教革新，文艺复兴，科学革命，“理性时代”的近代欧洲呼之欲出。
本书由霍莱斯特教授始作于20世纪60年代，此后不断修订，内容与时俱进。霍莱斯特逝后，擅长妇女史的贝内特教授继续增补此书。第十版保持了原作结构上的平衡，叙述简明扼要，而且在社会文化史方面，内容更为丰富。

《中世纪的衰落》研究的是十四、十五世纪的历史，研究的是中世纪文明的结束阶段。作者正是本着上述观点，试图真正理解凡·艾克兄弟及其所处时代，亦即试图从它与当时时代生活的联系中来理解。而现实已经证实，那个时代文明的种种形式中所共有的一点，就是它们均与过去有着千丝万缕的联系。这种联系更甚于它们与正孕育的未来的联系。因此，那个时代取得的辉煌成就，不单对艺术家用如此，对神学家、诗人、史学家、君王和政治家也是如此，都应被当作是对过去的完善与终结，而非新文化的前奏。

In The Beggar and the Professor, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie makes the Platter family the nexus of his fascinating exposition of the 16th century. In and of themselves, the Platter men were intriguing fellows; the fact that they were also prolific writers, filling diaries, memoirs, and correspondence with the details of their lives, makes them a godsend to historians. Following the Platters' paper trail, Le Roy Ladurie fashions an engaging portrait of a remarkable family. Thomas Platter Sr., for example, started life as an unlettered shepherd, spent his childhood roaming central Europe in a gang of thieves and panhandlers, and managed to pick up both literacy and a trade in his travels. By turns a printer, landowner, healer, and teacher, Platter was the embodiment of a Renaissance man. His eldest son, Felix, became a well-respected doctor, as did his youngest surviving boy, Thomas Jr.
Using the private lives of the Platters, Le Roy Ladurie illuminates the dangerous times in which they lived. Martin Luther precipitated a violent religious reformation; brigands ran wild through the countryside, and medical students crept into graveyards by night to dig up newly buried bodies for dissection. On this wild ride into history, the author's insightful observations guide the reader unerringly through the customs, practices, and upheavals of the times.

In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety of kinds of states which were viable at different stages of European history, and because they assume a unilinear path of state development resolving in today's national state.

本书为菲利普·内莫《古典与中世纪政治思想史》的第三卷。作者系法国当代著名哲学、政治学教授，毕业于法国圣克鲁高师，现为巴黎高等商学院一欧洲管理学院的教授兼巴黎高等商学院经济哲学研究中心的负责人。1998年，《古典与中世纪政治思想史》作为“基础丛书”的分册出版。此后，本书与该丛书中2002年出版的《现当代政治思想史》组合为“战车（Quadrige）丛书”。自此以后，“政治观念史教程”便成为法国各个大学、研究机构经典的教学用书。 本书首先详尽地论述了居住于古代近东地区的希伯来人的历史，以及包含在他们的古代经典中的政治思想。作者认为希伯来人的古代经典中的政治思想迥异于古代希腊、罗马人的政治思想，由于经历了中世纪，来自“耶路撒冷”的新的道德因素与来自雅典和罗马的公民遗产终于真正融合在一起；于是欧洲致力于科学及社会进步的现代才有可能取得长足进步，并以自由民主制为典范组织起来，国家的权力受到限定与限制。本书最值得瞩目之处在于作者对《圣经》中所包含的政治思想的详细、深入而准确的论述。

本书论述了5-15世纪的英国社会，包括它的封建主义组织，土地制度，法律制度、政治制度，阶级结构，城市制度，商品经济、货币和信用等，从制度史的角度对英国封建社会作了比较详尽的分析。本书的特点是从中国读者的角度出发，对以英国典型的西方封建社会各种制度探本追源，指出其所以如此的社会历史基础和学术背景；并且以中国历史为参照系，对英国封建社会提出自己的看法，破除西方历史独特性决定其发展独特性神话，力图说明世界历史发展的统一性。

Marked by C. Warren Hollister's clear historical vision and engaging teaching style, this classic text has been judiciously revised by Judith Bennett; the tenth edition includes greater coverage of Byzantium and Islam, a revised map program, a new essay program on medieval myths, and more. In his preface to the eighth edition, Professor Hollister wrote of his realization, while in college, that our world today "is a product of the medieval past." "Medieval Europe" introduces today's students to the medieval roots of our own society.

In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. In The King's Two Bodies, Kantorowicz traces the historical problem posed by the "King's two bodies"--the body politic and the body natural--back to the Middle Ages and demonstrates, by placing the concept in its proper setting of medieval thought and political theory, how the early-modern Western monarchies gradually began to develop a "political theology."
The king's natural body has physical attributes, suffers, and dies, naturally, as do all humans; but the king's other body, the spiritual body, transcends the earthly and serves as a symbol of his office as majesty with the divine right to rule. The notion of the two bodies allowed for the continuity of monarchy even when the monarch died, as summed up in the formulation "The king is dead. Long live the king."
Bringing together liturgical works, images, and polemical material, The King's Two Bodies explores the long Christian past behind this "political theology." It provides a subtle history of how commonwealths developed symbolic means for establishing their sovereignty and, with such means, began to establish early forms of the nation-state.
Kantorowicz fled Nazi Germany in 1938, after refusing to sign a Nazi loyalty oath, and settled in the United States. While teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, he once again refused to sign an oath of allegiance, this one designed to identify Communist Party sympathizers. He resigned as a result of the controversy and moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he remained for the rest of his life, and where he wrote The King's Two Bodies.