The civilization of the Middle Ages a completely revised and expanded edition of Medieval history, the life and death of a civilization /
Main Author: | Cantor, Norman F. |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
HarperCollins,
[1993]
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Physical Description: |
xiv, 604 pages ; 24 cm. |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The heritage of the ancient world
- The foundations of the Middle Ages
- The age of the barbarian invasions
- Justinian and Mohammed
- The advance of ecclesiastical leadership
- The making of Carolingian kingship
- Culture and society in the first Europe
- Ecclesia and mundus
- Byzantium, Islam, and the West
- Europe in 1050
- The Gregorian world revolution
- The Anglo-Norman monarchy and the emergence of the bureaucratic state
- The first crusade and after
- The intellectual expansion of Europe
- Moslem and Jewish thought : the Aristotelian challenge
- Varieties of religious experience
- The entrenchment of secular leadership
- The peace of Innocent III
- The new consensus and its limitations
- The search for order
- Late medieval and Renaissance culture.