Introduction : reading the tenth century / Timothy Reuter -- Rural economy and country life / Robert Fossier -- Merchants, markets and towns / Peter Johanek -- Rulers and government / Janet L. Nelson -- The church / Rosamond McKitterick -- Monasticism : the first wave of reform / Joachim Wollasch -- Intellectual life / Claudio Leonardi -- Artists and patrons / Henry Mayr-Harting -- The Ottonians as kings and emperors / Eckhard Müller-Mertens -- Saxony and the Elbe Slavs in the tenth century / Gerd Althoff -- Bavaria in the tenth and early eleventh centuries / Herwig Wolfram -- Lotharingia / Michel Parisse -- Burgundy and Provence, 879-1014 / Constance Brittain Bouchard -- The kingdom of Italy / Giuseppe Sergi -- West Francia : the kingdom / Jean Dunbabin -- West Francia : the northern principalities / David Bates -- Western Francia : the southern principalities / Michel Zimmerman -- England, c. 900-1016 / Simon Keynes --European Russia, c. 500-c.1050 / Thomas S. Noonan -- Bohemia and Poland : two examples of successful Slavonic state-formation / Jerzy Strzelczyk -- Hungary / Kornél Bakay -- Byzantium in equilibrium, 886-944 ; Bulgaria : the other Balkan 'empire' ; Byzantium expanding, 944-1025 ; Byzantium and the West / Jonathan Shepard -- Southern Italy in the tenth century / G.A. Loud -- Sicily and al-Andalus under Muslim rule / Hugh Kennedy -- The Spanish kingdoms / Roger Collins.