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This exciting new textbook offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the later Middle Ages, examining a period of huge crisis, conflict and religious change. Taking a thematic approach, and complete with maps, tables, illustrations, chronology, and an annotated bibliography, this book is the complete authoritative student's guide to Europe in the later Middle Ages.

Table of Contents:
List of plates.  List of maps.  List of tables and figures.  Preface.  Acknowledgements.  Introduction  ‘Hoc est corpus meum’: the transfiguration of Europe’s mystical body  An anatomy of Europe c. 1300  Late medieval and Renaissance: the tyranny of terminology?  Part I: Social and Economic Change  1. The demography of disaster   2. Individuals, families and communities  3. Trade, technology and exploration  Part II: Political Developments  4. The theory and ideology of government  5. The lineaments and limits of state power  6. Waging war and keeping the peace  7. Latin Christendom and its neighbours  Part III: Religion and Devotion  8. The Bride of Christ: the institutional Church  9. Devotion: Catholic beliefs and practices  10. Dissent and difference  Part IV: Cultural Change  11. Schools and schooling  12. Intellectual developments: later scholasticism and humanism  13. Language, literacy, and book production  14. Art, architecture and music  Conclusion: A New Europe?  Transformations and continuities.  Europe and the world.  Chronology.  Genealogies

About the Author :
Charles F. Briggs is Lecturer in History at the University of Vermont. He has published numerous works on the intellectual and cultural history of medieval Europe, including Giles of Rome’s ‘De regimine principum’: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c. 1275-c. 1525.

Review :
'This is a courageous and ambitious survey, written with verve, occasionally with a touch of asperity, and certainly carrying its reader along.' -- Reviews in History 'Briggs has done an admirable job of introducing this period of medieval change.' -- Jason Beveridge, S.A.T.H Resources Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415341493
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 356
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 872 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0415341493
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 356
  • Sub Title: Medieval Europe 1300–1520
  • Width: 174 mm


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