Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 462 p)
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ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0195301951
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9780195301953
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: WHY THE MIDDLE AGES MATTER -- PART ONE: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES: THE THIRD THROUGH NINTH CENTURIES -- 1 THE ROMAN WORLD AT ITS HEIGHT -- The Geography of Empire -- The Role of the Military -- Roman Society -- Roman Government -- The Challenges of the Third Century -- Reform, Recovery, Persecution, and Favor -- Suggested Reading -- 2 THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY -- Before Christ -- The Growth of the New Religion -- The Problem of Persecution -- The Problem of Heresy -- Constantine and Theodosius: An Imperial Church -- Responses to Imperialization -- Suggested Reading -- 3 EARLY GERMANIC SOCIETY -- Germanic Life -- Migrations and Invasions -- Europe's First Kingdoms -- Germanic Christianity and the Fourth "Doctor of the Church" -- Suggested Reading -- 4 CLOISTER AND CULTURE -- The Rise of Monasticism in the East -- The Rise of Monasticism in the West -- Cultural Life in the West: Cassiodorus, Boethius, and St. Benedict -- Suggested Reading -- 5 THE EMERGENCE OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLDS -- Continuity and Change in Northern Europe -- Continuity and Change in the Mediterranean -- The Rise of Islam -- A Tripartite World -- Suggested Reading -- 6 THE CAROLINGIAN ERA -- The "Do-Nothing" Kings and the Rise of the Carolingians -- The Carolingian Monarchy -- Carolingian Administration -- Carolingian Society -- The Carolingian Cultural Renewal -- Suggested Reading -- PART TWO: THE CENTRAL MIDDLE AGES: THE TENTH THROUGH TWELFTH CENTURIES -- 7 THE TIME OF TROUBLES -- Internal Disintegration -- Trouble from the North -- Trouble from the East -- Trouble from the South -- The End of the World? -- Suggested Reading -- 8 REVOLUTIONS ON LAND AND SEA -- Changes on the Land -- A Peasant Society Emerges -- Changes on the Sea -- A Maritime Society Emerges -- Suggested Reading -- 9 A NEW EUROPE EMERGES: NORTH AND SOUTH.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The Early Middle Ages: The Third through Ninth CenturiesThe Roman World at its Height -- The Rise of Christianity -- Early Germanic Society -- Cloister and Culture -- The Emergence of the Medieval Worlds -- The Carolingian Era -- The Central Middle Ages: The Tenth through Twelfth Centuries -- The Time of Troubles -- Revolutions on Land and Sea -- A New Europe Emerges: North and South -- The Reform of the Church -- The Renaissances of the Twelfth Century -- The Papal Monarchy -- The Late Middle Ages: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries -- Politics in the Thirteenth Century -- Art and Intellect in the Thirteenth Century -- Daily Life at the Medieval Zenith -- Changes in Religious Life -- The Crises of the Fourteenth Century -- Signs of a New Era -- Two Epilogues -- Closings in, Closings out -- The Renaissance in Medieval Context.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1602562989
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0195121686
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0195121694
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781602562981
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195121681
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195121698
Additional Edition:
Print version Worlds of medieval Europe
Language:
English
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