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The Worlds of Medieval Europe

ISBN: 9780195121698 | 0195121694
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/22/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
The Worlds of Medieval Europe updates and revises traditional textbook representations of the Middle Ages by balancing the conventional focus on political affairs, especially those of northern Europe, with equally detailed attention to medieval society as it developed in the Mediterranean. Theresult is a nuanced portrayal of a multifarious western world that was sharply divided between its northern and southern aspects. By also integrating the histories of the Islamic and Byzantine world into the main narrative, the text brings new life to the ... MORE
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Acknowledgmentsxiii
Introduction: Why the Middle Ages Matter1(6)
PART ONE The Early Middle Ages: The Third Through Ninth Centuries
The Roman World at its Height
7(16)
The Geography of Empire
7(3)
The Role of the Military
10(2)
Roman Society
12(2)
Roman Government
14(3)
The Challenges of the Third Century
17(2)
Reform, Recovery, Persecution, and Favor
19(2)
Suggested Reading
21(2)
The Rise of Christianity
23(25)
Before Christ
24(3)
The Growth of the New Religion
27(5)
The Problem of Persecution
32(2)
The Problem of Heresy
34(2)
Constantine and Theodosius: An Imperial Church
36(4)
Responses to Imperialization
40(6)
Suggested Reading
46(2)
Early Germanic Society
48(21)
Germanic Life
49(5)
Migrations and Invasions
54(3)
Europe's First Kingdoms
57(7)
Germanic Christianity and the Fourth ``Doctor of the Church''
64(3)
Suggested Reading
67(2)
Cloister and Culture
69(17)
The Rise of Monasticism in the East
69(4)
The Rise of Monasticism in the West
73(5)
Cultural Life in the West: Cassiodorus, Boethius, and St. Benedict
78(6)
Suggested Reading
84(2)
The Emergence of the Medieval Worlds
86(23)
Continuity and Change in Northern Europe
86(6)
Continuity and Change in the Mediterranean
92(7)
The Rise of Islam
99(7)
A Tripartite World
106(1)
Suggested Reading
107(2)
The Carolingian Era
109(28)
The ``Do-Nothing'' Kings and the Rise of the Carolingians
110(4)
The Carolingian Monarchy
114(6)
Carolingian Administration
120(5)
Carolingian Society
125(4)
The Carolingian Cultural Renewal
129(4)
Suggested Reading
133(4)
PART TWO The Central Middle Ages: The Tenth Through Twelfth Centuries
The Time of Troubles
137(18)
Internal Disintegration
137(4)
Trouble from the North
141(3)
Trouble from the East
144(1)
Trouble from the South
145(4)
The End of the World?
149(4)
Suggested Reading
153(2)
Revolutions on Land and Sea
155(20)
Changes on the Land
156(4)
A Peasant Society Emerges
160(7)
Changes on the Sea
167(3)
A Maritime Society Emerges
170(3)
Suggested Reading
173(2)
A New Europe Emerges: North and South
175(33)
The Rise of Feudal Society
176(5)
The First German Empire
181(6)
The Rise of Capetian France
187(2)
The Anglo-Norman Realm
189(7)
The Spanish Kingdoms
196(5)
The Italian Scene
201(5)
Suggested Reading
206(2)
The Reform of the Church
208(23)
The Origins of the Reform
210(6)
The Papal Revolution
216(3)
Christendom and the East
219(8)
Monastic Reforms
227(2)
Suggested Reading
229(2)
The Renaissances of the Twelfth Century
231(31)
Aristotle, Anselm, Abelard, and 'Ibn Rushd
232(5)
Law and Canon Law
237(4)
The Recovery of Science
241(6)
The Rise of the Universities
247(5)
Courtly Life, Love, and Literature
252(8)
Suggested Reading
260(2)
The Papal Monarchy
262(21)
Church against State Once More
263(4)
The Consolidation of Papal Authority
267(6)
The Revival of Heresy
273(4)
The Albigensian Crusade and the Origins of the Inquisition
277(2)
Suggested Reading
279(4)
PART THREE The Late Middle Ages: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Politics in the Thirteenth Century
283(21)
The Rise of Representative Institutions
284(2)
England and France
286(7)
Germany, Italy, and the Papacy
293(3)
The New Mediterranean Superpowers
296(3)
Byzantium and Islam in the Thirteenth Century
299(3)
Suggested Reading
302(2)
Art and Intellect in the Thirteenth Century
304(23)
Scholasticism
305(4)
The Gothic Vision
309(7)
Science and Technology
316(5)
Aspects of Popular Culture
321(4)
Suggested Reading
325(2)
Daily Life at the Medieval Zenith
327(25)
Economic Changes
329(4)
Peasants' Lives
333(4)
Townsfolks' Lives
337(8)
The Question of Literacy
345(1)
Sex Lives of the Not-So-Rich and the Not-So-Famous
346(4)
Suggested Reading
350(2)
Changes in the Religious Life
352(17)
The Importance of Being penitent
353(3)
The Importance of Being Poor
356(5)
The Humanization of Christ and the Cult of the Virgin
361(3)
Mysticism
364(3)
Suggested Reading
367(2)
The Crises of the Fourteenth Century
369(26)
Economic Difficulties
370(3)
The Great Famine
373(1)
The Black Death
374(7)
War Everywhere
381(6)
Challenges to Church Unity
387(7)
Suggested Reading
394(1)
Signs of a New Era
395(18)
William of Ockham
395(3)
Marsilius of Padua
398(2)
Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer
400(7)
Christine de Pizan
407(1)
Suggested Reading
408(5)
PART FOUR Two Epilogues
Closings in, Closings Out
413(14)
The Last Years of Byzantium
415(2)
The Search for a New Route to the East
417(3)
Closing In on Muslim Spain
420(2)
The Expulsions of the Jews
422(2)
Closing In Forever: The Forced Cloistering of Women Religious
424(1)
Suggested Reading
425(2)
The Renaissance in Medieval Context
427(11)
Economies New and Old circa 1400
428(2)
The Meaning of Humanism
430(1)
The Canonization of Classical Culture
431(4)
The Rejection of the Middle Ages
435(1)
Suggested Reading
436(2)
Appendix A the Medieval Popes438(5)
Appendix B the Carolingians443(1)
Appendix C the Capetians444(1)
Appendix D France: The Valois445(1)
Appendix E England: The Norman and Plantagenet Dynasties446(1)
Appendix F England: The Lancastrian and Yorkist Dynasties447(1)
Appendix G Germany: The Ottonian, Salian, and Hohenstaufen Dynasties448(1)
Appendix H Germany: The Late Medieval Emperors449(1)
Appendix I the Spanish Kingdoms, 1000-1250450(1)
Appendix J the Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1500451(2)
Index453

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