История средних веков.

The first volume of the textbook covers the early and developed Middle Ages (V-XV centuries)

The textbook "History of the Middle Ages" for university students covers the period from the 5th to the middle of the 17th century. In the first volume, according to the periodization adopted in Soviet historiography, the history of the early (V - middle of the 11th century) and developed (end of the 11th - 15th centuries) is described, in the second volume - the late (XVI - middle of the 17th century) Middle Ages.
The chapters of the textbook reflect the theoretical, methodological and historiographic problems of the history of the feudal socio-economic formation as a whole, the most important processes in the life of medieval society, the development of individual regions and countries of Western Europe and Byzantium. Material on the history of the southern and western Slavs, as well as the history of the countries of Asia and Africa in the Middle Ages, is not included in the textbook, since according to the curriculum of the history departments of universities, these courses are studied separately. An exception is made only for those topics that analyze international relations and contacts between Western European states and Slavic countries, the Ottoman Empire, etc.
This book is a new edition of a textbook on the history of the Middle Ages, in which the authors sought to reflect the achievements of the domestic and foreign medieval studies of recent years. At the same time, the editorial board considered justified the structure of the textbook, which was adopted in the editions of 1966 and 1977, preserving the best traditions of university textbooks, laid down by the outstanding Soviet medievalists academicians E. A. Kosminsky and S. D. Skazkin. For the first time, chapters and special sections on the development of the productive forces of medieval society from the 5th to the 15th centuries were introduced into a university textbook. (Ch. 19), about Northern Europe and Spain in the VIII-XI centuries. (Ch. 6), about Latin Romania (Ch. 17).
The textbook's team of authors includes professors and teachers from the Department of the History of the Middle Ages, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov, researchers of the sector of the history of the Middle Ages and other sectors of the Institute of World History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of History of the USSR of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Tomsk State University, as well as employees of a number of other scientific institutions (authors of chapters and paragraphs are indicated in the table of contents).