Europe in the High Middle Ages

Author: William Chester Jordan
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140166645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
With a lucid and clear narrative style William Chester Jordan has turned his considerable talents to composing a standard textbook of the opening centuries of the second millennium in Europe. He brings this period of dramatic social, political, economic, cultural, religious and military change, alive to the general reader. Jordan presents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking rubble of the Roman Empire, but from which we are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it. Broad in scope, punctuated with impressive detail, and highly accessible, Jordan's book is set to occupy a central place in university courses of the medieval period.

Central Europe in the High Middle Ages

Author: Nora Berend
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521781566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 549

Book Description
A groundbreaking comparative history of the formation of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, from their origins in the eleventh century.

The Penguin History of Europe

Author: J. Roberts
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141925094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 904

Book Description
Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations of the Aegean, The Penguin History of Europe traces the development of European identity in its many guises, through the age of Christendom, the Middle Ages, early Modern history and the old European order.

The Central Middle Ages

Author: Daniel Power
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199253110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Daniel Power traces the history of Europe in the central Middle Ages (950-1320), an age of far-reaching change for the continent. Seven contributors consider the history of this period from a variety of perspectives, including political, social, economic, religious and intellectual history.

Germany in the High Middle Ages

Author: Horst Fuhrmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521319805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
This book describes and explains the conditions and changes happening in Germany from 1050-1200.

Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe

Author: Edward Peters
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern Europe theological uniformity was synonymous with social cohesion in societies that regarded themselves as bound together at their most fundamental levels by a religion. To maintain a belief in opposition to the orthodoxy was to set oneself in opposition not merely to church and state but to a whole culture in all of its manifestations. From the eleventh century to the fifteenth, however, dissenting movements appeared with greater frequency, attracted more followers, acquired philosophical as well as theological dimensions, and occupied more and more the time and the minds of religious and civil authorities. In the perception of dissent and in the steps taken to deal with it lies the history of medieval heresy and the force it exerted on religious, social, and political communities long after the Middle Ages. In this volume, Edward Peters makes available the most compact and wide-ranging collection of source materials in translation on medieval orthodoxy and heterodoxy in social context.

Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250

Author: Florin Curta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521815398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
This book is an authoritative survey of the history of southeastern Europe from 500 to 1250.

Disability in Medieval Europe

Author: Irina Metzler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134217382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 535

Book Description
This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of great interest to many historians and researchers, Irene Metzler presents a theoretical framework of disability and explores key areas such as: medieval theoretical concepts theology and natural philosophy notions of the physical body medical theory and practice. Bringing into play the modern day implications of medieval thought on the issue, this is a fascinating and informative addition to the research studies of medieval history, history of medicine and disability studies scholars the English-speaking world over.

Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages

Author: David Crouch
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462701709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
In popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and due to a long tradition of differing national perspectives and ideological assumptions, few phenomena have continued to be the object of so much academic debate. In this volume leading scholars explore various aspects of knightly identity, taking into account both commonalities and particularities across Western Europe. Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages addresses how, between the eleventh and the early thirteenth centuries, knighthood evolved from a set of skills and a lifestyle that was typical of an emerging elite habitus, into the basis of a consciously expressed and idealised chivalric code of conduct. Chivalry, then, appears in this volume as the result of a process of noble identity formation, in which some five key factors are distinguished: knightly practices, lineage, crusading memories, gender roles, and chivalric didactics.

Heresies of the High Middle Ages

Author: Walter Leggett Wakefield
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231096324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 888

Book Description
More than seventy documents, ranging in date from the early eleventh century to the early fourteenth century and representing both orthodox and heretical viewpoints are included.