Chapter III: The Social Life and Structure

Of the historians cited in the last chapter, most are serviceable here. Consult in addition Lea's Superstition and Force (3rd ed. 1878), Berington's Literary History of the Middle Ages, Dunham's Europe in the Middle Ages, and Ampère's Histoire Littéraire, before cited. There are good lives of Savonarola by Perrens (French) and Villari, Eng. tr. See also J. A. Symonds, Renaissance in Italy: Age of the Despots. On slavery compare Larroque, De l'esclavage chez les nations chrétiennes (2e édit. 1864); or see the author's Evolution of States, per index. An excellent general view of the Crusades is given in the manual by Sir G. W. Cox ("Epochs of History" series). The latest expert survey of the subject is that of M. Seignobos, in the Histoire générale of MM. Lavisse and Rambaud. For a survey of the effect of Christianity on European life in general see Mr. McCabe's The Bible in Europe: an Inquiry into the Contribution of the Christian Religion to Civilization (R. P. A., 1907) and The Religion of Woman (1905).