The evolution of the medieval world : society, government, and thought in Europe, 312-1500 /
"This ambitious book is designed to meet the need for a comprehensive and sophisticated one-volume survey of medieval Europe that respects the complexity and richness of its subject while opening it up to the student and non-specialist reader." "Throughout, David Nicholas stresses the...
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London ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. The precursor of a civilisation. Introduction
- The Roman heritate of medieval civilisation
- Forging a Christian synthesis
- Tribal Europe befor the eighth century : the Germans and the Celts
- The eastern heritage
- Pt. 2. The birth of a civilisation : early medieval Europe, c. 700-920. Introduction
- The Carolingian west : Europe in the eighth and ninth cenuries
- Changes on the land
- Pt. 3. The maturity of a civilisation : Europe in the centural middle ages, c. 920-1270. Introduction
- Government and politics : emperors and Popes
- Government and politics : England and France in the central middle ages
- Nobles and Crusaders
- The social and economic changes of the central middle ages
- The intellectua awakening of medieval Europe
- The spiritual life of the central middle ages
- Pt. 4. The old age of a civilisation : the late middle ages, 1270-1500. Introduction
- Economic reorientation and social crisis in the late middle ages
- Government and politics in the late middle ages
- State, mind and spirit in later medieval Europe.