8vo. xii, 288 p, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. Light wear, bottom right corner creased. Page edges slightly toned. Footnotes with bibliographical references. From the Library of Professor D. Rollason & Dr L. Rollason of the Medieval History Department at Durham University. Contents: The Tenth-Century Condition -- Henry I and the Beginnings of the Saxon Empire -- The Battle at the Lech, 955 -- Ottonian Government -- The Tenth Century in Byzantine-Western Relationships -- The Polemics of the Papal Revolution -- The German Aristocracy from the Ninth to the Early Twelfth Century: A Historical and Cultural Sketch -- England and the Empire in the Early Twelfth Century -- Frederick Barbarossa, Henry II and the Hand of St. James -- Some Reflections on Twelfth-Century Kings and Kingship -- The Emperor Frederick II.