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Backman, C: Worlds of Medieval Europe 4th edition

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

27.10.2021

Verlag

Oxford Academic

Seitenzahl

688

Maße (L/B/H)

15.7/23.3/2.8 cm

Gewicht

890 g

Auflage

4 Revised edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-757153-8

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

27.10.2021

Verlag

Oxford Academic

Seitenzahl

688

Maße (L/B/H)

15.7/23.3/2.8 cm

Gewicht

890 g

Auflage

4 Revised edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-757153-8

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  • Produktbild: Backman, C: Worlds of Medieval Europe

    • List of Maps

    • Preface to the Fourth Edition

    • 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

    • Key Terms

    • 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

    • Key Terms

    • 3. Early Germanic Society

    • Germanic Life

    • Migrations and Invasions

    • Europe's First Kingdoms

    • Germanic Christianity and the Fourth "Doctor of the Church"

    • Key Terms

    • 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

    • Key Terms

    • 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

    • Key Terms

    • 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

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • PART TWO The Central Middle Ages: The Tenth through Twelfth Centuries

    • 7. The Time of Troubles

    • Trouble from Within

    • Trouble from the North

    • Trouble from the East

    • Trouble from the South

    • The End of the World?

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • 8. Revolutions on Land and Sea

    • Changes on the Land

    • A Peasant Society Emerges

    • Changes on the Sea

    • A Maritime Society Emerges

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • 9. A New Europe Emerges: North and South

    • The Rise of Feudal Society

    • The First German Empire

    • The Rise of Capetian France

    • The Anglo-Norman Realm

    • The Spanish Kingdoms

    • The Italian Scene

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • 10. The Reform of the Church

    • The Origins of the Reform

    • The Papal Revolution

    • Christendom and the East

    • Monastic Reforms

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • 11. The Renaissances of the Twelfth Century

    • Aristotle, Anselm, Abelard, and Ibn Rushd

    • Law and Canon Law

    • The Recovery of Science

    • The Rise of the Universities

    • Courtly Life, Love, and Literature

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • 12. The Papal Monarchy

    • Church against State Once More

    • The Consolidation of Papal Authority

    • The Revival of Heresy

    • The Albigensian Crusade and the Origins of the Inquisition

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • PART THREE The Late Middle Ages: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

    • 13. Politics in the Thirteenth Century

    • The Rise of Representative Institutions

    • England and France

    • Germany, Italy, and the Papacy

    • The New Mediterranean Superpowers

    • Eastern Europe

    • Byzantium and Islam in the Thirteenth Century

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • 14. Art and Intellect in the Thirteenth Century

    • Scholasticism

    • From Romanesque to Gothic Vision

    • Science and Technology

    • Aspects of Popular Culture

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • 15. Daily Life at the Medieval Zenith

    • Economic Changes

    • Peasants' Lives

    • Townsfolks' Lives

    • The Question of Literacy

    • Sex and the City (and the Town, and the Village)

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • 16. Changes in Religious Life

    • The Importance of Being Penitent

    • The Importance of Being Poor

    • The Humanization of Christ and the Cult of the Virgin

    • Mysticism

    • The Spiritual World of Orthodoxy

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • 17. The Crises of the Fourteenth Century

    • Economic Difficulties

    • The Great Famine

    • The Black Death

    • War Everywhere

    • Challenges to Church Unity

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • 18. Signs of a New Era

    • William of Ockham

    • Marsilius of Padua

    • Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer

    • Christine de Pizan

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • PART FOUR Two Epilogues

    • 19. Closings In, Closings Out

    • The Last Years of Byzantium

    • The Search for a New Route to the East

    • Closing In on Muslim Spain

    • The Expulsions of the Jews

    • Closing In Forever: The Forced Cloistering of Female Religious

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • 20. The Renaissance in Medieval Context

    • Economies New and Old circa 1400

    • The Meaning of Humanism

    • The Canonization of Classical Culture

    • The Rejection of the Middle Ages

    • Key Terms

    • Suggested Reading

    • Appendix A: The Medieval Popes

    • Appendix B: The Carolingians

    • Appendix C: The Capetians

    • Appendix D: France: The Valois

    • Appendix E: England: The Norman and Plantagenet Dynasties

    • Appendix F: England: The Lancastrian and Yorkist Dynasties

    • Appendix G: Germany: The Ottonian, Salian, and Hohenstaufen Dynasties

    • Appendix H: Germany: The Late Medieval Emperors

    • Appendix I: The Spanish Kingdoms, 1000-1250

    • Appendix J: The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1500

    • Appendix K: The Emperors in Constantinople

    • Glossary

    • Index