This book gives brief biographies of the 31 most famous men of the Middle Ages. They were: Alaric the Visigoth, Attila the Hun, Genseric the Vandal, Theodoric the Ostrogoth, Clovis, Justinian, Mohammed, Charles Martle and Pepin, Charlemagne, Harun-al-Raschid, Egbert the Saxon, Rollo the Viking, Alfred the Great, Henry the Fowler, Canute the Great, Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, Peter the Hermit, Frederick Barbarossa, Henry the Second and His Sons, Robert Bruce, Marco Polo, Edward the Black Prince, William Tell and Arnold von Winkelried, Tamerlane, Henry V, Joan of Arc, Gutenberg, and Warwick the King-Maker.