Medieval Europe - Bennett, Judith M.

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Résumé :
For five decades, Medieval Europe: A Short History has been the best-selling text for courses on the history of Medieval Europe. This acclaimed book has long been applauded for both its scholarship and its engaging narrative. Oxford University Press is pleased to continue this tradition of excellence with a new, affordable, and streamlined twelfth edition featuring a new coauthor, Sandy Bardsley. The new edition offers increased coverage of race and ethnicity, more incorporation of archaeological data, an overall streamlining of the text, and more....

Biographie:
Sandy Bardsley is Professor of History at Moravian College.

Judith M. Bennett is Professor of History Emerita at University of Southern California and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Sommaire:

• Abbreviations and Conventions


• Biographical Sketches


• Medieval Myths


• Maps


• List of Figures


• Preface


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Romans, Christians, and Barbarians


• The Early Middle Ages


• The Roman Peace (31 B.C.E.-180 C.E.) and After


• Christianity


• Barbarians and the Western Empire


• The Decline of the Western Empire


• Chapter 2: Early Western Christendom, c. 500-700


• Early Medieval Society


• Early Medieval Politics


• The Early Medieval Church


• Intellectual Life


• Chapter 3: The Byzantine Empire, c. 500-1000


• Byzantine Government


• Byzantine Christianity


• Byzantine Economy and Society


• Byzantine Culture


• The Course of Byzantine Politics


• Chapter 4: The Islamic Empires, c. 571-1100


• Arabia and Muhammad (c. 571-632)


• The Islamic Empires


• Islamic Culture


• Religion, Race, and Difference


• Chapter 5: Carolingian Europe, c. 700-850


• The Early Carolingians


• Charlemagne (r. 768-814)


• Intellectual Revival


• Chapter 6: Division, Invasion, and Reorganization, c. 800-1000


• Division: The Later Carolingians


• Invasion: Muslims, Magyars, and Vikings


• Reorganization: New Polities


• Chapter 7: Economic Takeoff and Social Change in the Countryside, c. 1000-1300


• The Central Middle Ages


• Agricultural Revolution


• Rural Society


• Chapter 8: Economic Takeoff and Social Change in Town and Court, c. 1000-1300


• The Commercial Revolution


• Urban Society


• The Landholding Aristocracy


• Feudal Society


• The Expansion of Education


• Chapter 9: Popes and the Papacy, c. 1000-1300


• Popes, Clergy, and Laity, c. 1000-1122


• The Reformed Papacy and its Church


• Innocent III and the Papacy Ascendant


• The Papacy after 1250


• Chapter 10: New Paths to God, c. 1000-1300


• Judaism


• The Evolution of Christian Piety


• Orthodoxy and Heresy


• Changes in Monastic Life


• The Mendicant Orders


• Chapter 11: Conquests, Crusades, and Persecutions, c. 1100-1300


• Conquests and Territorial Expansion


• Crusades


• Persecutions


• Conclusion


• Chapter 12: States Made and Unmade, c. 1000-1300


• The Holy Roman Empire: Disintegration


• England: King and Parliament


• France: The Monarchy Triumphant


• Iberia: Some Consolidation


• The States of Northern and Eastern Europe


• Chapter 13: Literature, Art, and Thought, c. 1000-1300


• Byzantine and Islamic Influences


• Intellectual Trends


• Literature


• Architecture and Sculpture


• Chapter 14: Famine, Plague, and Recovery, c. 1300-1500


• The Later Middle Ages


• Economic Woes and Demographic Crisis (1300-1350)


• Adjustment and Recovery (1350-1500)


• Late Medieval Christianity


• Chapter 15: Toward the Sovereign State, c. 1300-1500


• England, France, and the Hundred Years' War