The History Of Medieval Europe

Author : R.H.C. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317867883

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A History of Medieval Europe by R.H.C. Davis Pdf

R.C. Davis provided the classic account of the European medieval world; equipping generations of undergraduate and ‘A’ level students with sufficient grasp of the period to debate diverse historical perspectives and reputations. His book has been important grounding for both modernists required to take a course in medieval history, and those who seek to specialise in the medieval period. In updating this classic work to a third edition, the additional author now enables students to see history in action; the diverse viewpoints and important research that has been undertaken since Davis’ second edition, and progressed historical understanding. Each of Davis original chapters now concludes with a ‘new directions and developments’ section by Professor RI Moore, Emeritus of Newcastle University. A key work updated in a method that both enhances subject understanding and sets important research in its wider context. A vital resource, now up-to-date for generations of historians to come.

Author : Chris Wickham
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300222210

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Medieval Europe by Chris Wickham Pdf

A spirited history of the changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages: “A dazzling race through a complex millennium.”—Publishers Weekly The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne’s reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, and political circumstances affected individual lives and international events—and offers both a new conception of Europe’s medieval period and a provocative revision of exactly how and why the Middle Ages matter. “Far-ranging, fluent, and thoughtful—of considerable interest to students of history writ large, and not just of Europe.”—Kirkus Reviews, (starred review) Includes maps and illustrations

Author : George Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0192801333

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The Oxford History of Medieval Europe by George Holmes Pdf

Covering a thousand years of history, this volume tells the story of the creation of Western civilization in Europe and the Mediterranean. Now available in a compact, more convenient format, it offers the same text and many of the illustrations which first appeared in the widely acclaimed Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe. Written by expert scholars and based on the latest research, the book explores a period of profound diversity and change, focusing on all aspects of medieval history from the empires and kingdoms of Charlemagne and the Byzantines to the new nations which fought the Hundred Years War. The Oxford History of the Medieval World also examines such intriguing cultural subjects as the chivalric code of knights, popular festivals, and the proliferation of new art forms, and the catastrophic social effect of the Black Death.

Author : Maurice Keen
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020519687

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The History of Medieval Europe by Maurice Keen Pdf

This is a fascinating, three-dimensional picture of the politics, society and religion of medieval Europe, the age that had as its great theme the unity of Christendom. Maurice Keen examines tribal wars, the Crusades, the growth of trade and the shifting patterns of community life as villages grew into towns and towns into sizeable cities. He explores how Papal victories, by blurring the distinction between temporal and spiritual matters, eventually undermined the spiritual authority of the Church. And he discusses how the Hundred Years War escalated from a feudal dispute into a full-scale national conflict, until, by the mid-fifteenth century, changing economic and social conditions had transformed the unity of Christendom into merely a pious phrase.

Author : Matthew Gabriele,David M. Perry
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062980915

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The Bright Ages by Matthew Gabriele,David M. Perry Pdf

"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.”—Slate "Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." —The Boston Globe A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality—a brilliant reflection of humanity itself. The word “medieval” conjures images of the “Dark Ages”—centuries of ignorance, superstition, stasis, savagery, and poor hygiene. But the myth of darkness obscures the truth; this was a remarkable period in human history. The Bright Ages recasts the European Middle Ages for what it was, capturing this 1,000-year era in all its complexity and fundamental humanity, bringing to light both its beauty and its horrors. The Bright Ages takes us through ten centuries and crisscrosses Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them. We look with fresh eyes on the Fall of Rome, Charlemagne, the Vikings, the Crusades, and the Black Death, but also to the multi-religious experience of Iberia, the rise of Byzantium, and the genius of Hildegard and the power of queens. We begin under a blanket of golden stars constructed by an empress with Germanic, Roman, Spanish, Byzantine, and Christian bloodlines and end nearly 1,000 years later with the poet Dante—inspired by that same twinkling celestial canopy—writing an epic saga of heaven and hell that endures as a masterpiece of literature today. The Bright Ages reminds us just how permeable our manmade borders have always been and of what possible worlds the past has always made available to us. The Middle Ages may have been a world “lit only by fire” but it was one whose torches illuminated the magnificent rose windows of cathedrals, even as they stoked the pyres of accused heretics. The Bright Ages contains an 8-page color insert.

Author : Norman John Greville Pounds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317893578

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An Economic History of Medieval Europe by Norman John Greville Pounds Pdf

A clear and readable account of the development of the European economy and its infrastructure from the second century to 1500. Professor Pounds provides a balanced view of the many controversies within the subject, and he has a particular gift for bringing a human dimension to its technicalities. He deals with continental Europe as a whole, including an unusually rich treatment of Eastern Europe. For this welcome new edition -- the first in twenty years -- text and bibliography have been reworked and updated throughout, and the book redesigned and reset.

Author : George Holmes
Publisher : Oxford Illustrated History
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0192854356

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The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe by George Holmes Pdf

'The individual chapters are scholarly and up to the minute, without loss of accessibility or pace. The illustrations are many, apposite and refreshingly unhackneyed.' -Times Literary Supplement

Author : Lynn Thorndike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Europe
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048708882

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The History of Medieval Europe by Lynn Thorndike Pdf

Author : H G Koenigsberger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317870890

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Medieval Europe 400 - 1500 by H G Koenigsberger Pdf

This book traces across the millennium of the Middle Ages the gradual crystallisation of a new and distinctive European identity. Koenigsberger covers the Islamic, Byzantine and central Asian worlds in his account which explains Europe's progression from chaos and collapse to the point where it was set to rule much of the world.

Author : Charles Warren Hollister,Judith M. Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112205401

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Medieval Europe by Charles Warren Hollister,Judith M. Bennett Pdf

For more than three decades, C. Warren Hollister nurtured this classic text of Medieval European History, which was profoundly marked by his clear historical vision and engaging teaching style. The ninth edition seeks to introduce today's students to the medieval roots of our own society. Judith Bennett has updated this classic book while striving to lose neither the vision nor the style of the original. She brings to this revision expanded coverage of women's history, social and cultural history, the role of the common man and woman of the Middle Ages, and the history of the Late Middle Ages.

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345349576

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A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman Pdf

A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.” Praise for A Distant Mirror “Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books “A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal “Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary

Author : Henri Pirenne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136788550

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Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe by Henri Pirenne Pdf

First published in 2005. This original study the author writing in 1936 has tried to sketch the character and general movement of the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the middle of the fifteenth century.

Author : Wim Blockmans,Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000871951

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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 by Wim Blockmans,Peter Hoppenbrouwers Pdf

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a global context, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the Crusades, the effects of plague and the intellectual and cultural dynamism of the Middle Ages. The book explores the driving forces behind the formation of medieval society and the directions in which it developed and changed. In doing this, the authors cover a wide geographic expanse, including Western interactions with the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic World, North Africa and Asia. This fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect moves toward teaching the Middle Ages in a global context and contains a wealth of new features and topics that help to bring this fascinating era to life, including: West Europe’s catching up through intensive exchange with the Mediterranean Islamic world growth of autonomous cities and civic liberties emergence of an empirical and rational worldview climate change and intercontinental pandemics European exchange with Africa and Asia chapter introductions to support students’ understanding of the topics a fully updated glossary to give modern students the confidence and language to discuss medieval history Clear and stimulating, the fourth edition of Introduction to Medieval Europe is the ideal companion to studying the entirety of medieval history at undergraduate level.

Author : Lynn Thorndike
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547685494

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The History of Medieval Europe by Lynn Thorndike Pdf

This book aims to trace the development of Europe and its civilization, from the decline of the Roman Empire to the opening of the sixteenth century. The Table of Contents indicates the general plan of the book, which is to treat medieval Europe as a whole and to hang the story upon a single thread, rather than to recount as distinct narratives the respective histories of France, England, Germany, Italy, and other countries of modern Europe. Content: The Roman Empire The Barbarian World Outside the Empire The Decline of the Roman Empire The Barbarian Invasions: 378-511 A.D. "The City of God" German Kingdoms in the West Justinian and the Byzantine Empire Gregory the Great and Western Christendom The Rise and Spread of Mohammedanism The Frankish State and Charlemagne The Northmen and Other New Invaders The Feudal Land System and Feudal Society Feudal States of Europe The Growth of the Medieval Church The Expansion of Christendom and the Crusades The Rise of Towns and Gilds The Italian Cities French, Flemish, English, and German Towns The Medieval Revival of Learning Medieval Literature The Medieval Cathedrals The Church Under Innocent III Innocent III and the States of Europe The Growth of National Institutions in England The Growth of Royal Power in France The Hundred Years War Germany in the Later Middle Ages Eastern Europe in the Later Middle Ages The Papacy and Its Opponents in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries The Italian Renaissance: Politics and Humanism The Italian Renaissance: Fine Arts and Voyages of Discovery The Rise of Absolutism and of the Middle Class

Author : R. H. C. Davis
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0582418615

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A History of Medieval Europe by R. H. C. Davis Pdf

This is an introductory survey of European history from the Dark Ages to the high Middle Ages. The text examines the impact of the barbarian invasions on Christendom and the emergence of a new social and political order.