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.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : HarperCollins, [1993]
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.