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The Story of Civilization, by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an 11-volume set of books covering Western history for the general reader.

The series was written over a span of more than five decades. It totals four million words across nearly 10,000 pages, with 2 further books in production at the time of the authors' deaths.[1]
IV. The Age of Faith (1950)
The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, a city considered holy by Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, a city considered holy by Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
This volume covers the Middle Ages in both Europe and the Near East, from the time of Constantine I to that of Dante Alighieri.

The Byzantine Zenith: AD 325–565
Julian the Apostate: 332-63
The Triumph of the Barbarians: 325–476
The Progress of Christianity: 364–451
Europe Takes Form: 325–529
Justinian: 527-65
Byzantine Civilization: 337–565
The Persians: 224–641
"Historically, the conquest destroyed the outward form of what had already inwardly decayed; it cleared away with regrettable brutality and thoroughness a system of life which, with all its gifts of order, culture, and law, had worn itself into senile debility, and had lost the powers of regeneration and growth." (p. 43)
Islamic Civilization: AD 569–1258
Mohammed: 569–632
The Koran
The Sword of Islam: 632–1058
The Islamic Scene: 632–1058
Thought and Art in Eastern Islam: 632–1058
Western Islam: 641–1086
The Grandeur and Decline of Islam: 1058–1258
"Moslems seem to have been better gentlemen than their Christian peers; they kept their word more frequently, showed more mercy to the defeated, and were seldom guilty of the brutality as marked the Christian capture of Jerusalem in 1099." (p. 341)
Judaic Civilization: AD 135-1300
The Talmud: 135–500
The Medieval Jews: 500–1300
The Mind and Heart of the Jew: 500–1300
The Dark Ages: AD 566–1095
The Byzantine World: 566–1095
The Decline of the West: 566–1066
The Rise of the North: 566–1066
Christianity in Conflict: 529–1085
Feudalism and Chivalry: 600–1200
"Beliefs make history, especially when they are wrong; it is for errors that men have most nobly died." (p.458)
The Climax of Christianity: 1095–1300
The Crusades: 1095–1291
The Economic Revolution: 1066–1300
The Recovery of Europe: 1095–1300
Pre-Renaissance Italy: 1057–1308
The Roman Catholic Church: 1095–1294
The Early Inquisition: 1000–1300
Monks and Friars: 1095–1300
The Morals and Manners of Christendom: 700–1300
The Resurrection of the Arts: 1095–1300
The Gothic Flowering: 1095–1300
Medieval Music: 326–1300
The Transmission of Knowledge: 1000–1300
Abélard: 1079–1142
The Adventure of Reason: 1120–1308
Christian Science: 1095–1300
The Age of Romance: 1100–1300
Dante: 1265–1321
"All in all, the picture we form of the medieval Latin Church is that of a complex organization doing its best, despite the human frailties of its adherents and leaders, to establish moral and social order, and to spread an uplifting and consoling faith, amid the wreckage of an old civilization and the passions of an adolescent society." (p. 818)
Epilogue: The Medieval Legacy