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Penguin History of Europe: Book 3
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It was an age of hope and possibility, of accomplishment and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno, and Thomas Aquinas. Buoyant, confident, creative, the era seemed to be flowering into a true renaissance-until the... read more
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People edit
- John: Add a description of this character.
- Henry III
- Frederick I Barbarossa
- Stephen Langton
- Charles
- Richard
- William
- Philip
- James
- Robert
- Baldwin
- Edward
- Thomas Aquinas
- Gregory VII
- Suger
- Boniface
- Thomas Becket
- Otto Iii
- Simon De Montfort
- Boles
- Francis
- Havelock
- Isabelle
- Frederick Ii
- Valdemar
- Rudolf
- Peter
- Michael Paleologus
- Imre
- Fulbert
- David
- Roger Mortimer
- Mieszko
- Raymond Vi
- Averroes
Setting & Locations edit
- Ile De France
- England
- Europe
- Italy
- Germany
- Rome
- Sicily
- Flanders
- Poland
- Jerusalem
- Paris
- Spain
- Hungary
- Anjou
- Norway
- Holy Land
- Constantinople
- Crusader States
- Denmark
- Islam
- Sweden
- Ireland
- Castile
- Canterbury
- Scotland
- Iceland
- Sardinia
- Avignon
- Corsica
- Portugal
- High Middle Ages
- Scandinavia
- Venice
- Pisa
- Antioch
- Tunisia
- Maine
- Wales
- Egypt
- Bohemia
- Valencia
- Provence
- Bologna
- North Africa
- London
- Milan
- Toulouse
First Sentence edit
Medieval European population can only be estimated from very incomplete data, but the sophisticated resarch techniques that demographers have developed to exploit these data, and the cautious nature of their conclusions in individual studies, given historians some confidence in their calculations.
Table of Contents edit
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Note on Names
Prologue
PART I: EUROPE IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY
1. Christendom in the Year 1000
2. Mediterranean Europe
3. Northern Celts and Anglo-Saxons
4. Francia/France
5. Central Europe
PART II: THE RENAISSANCE OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY
6. The Investiture Controversy
7. The First Crusade
8. The World of Learning
9. Cultural Innovations of the Twelfth Century: Vernacular Literature and Architecture
10. Political Power and its Contexts I
11. Political Power and its Contexts II
PART III: THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
12. Social Structures
13. The Pontificate of Innocent III and the Fourth Lateran Council
14. Learning
15. The kingdoms of the North
16. Baltic and Central Europe
17. The Gothic World
18. Southern Europe
PART IV: CHRISTENDOM IN THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY
19. Famine and Plague
20. Political and Social Violence
21. The Church in crisis
Epilogue
APPENDIX: Genealogical Tables
References
Suggested Reading
Index
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 4 in Penguin History of Europe. (publisher series)
Preceded by The Inheritance of Rome.
Authors & Contributors edit
- William C. Jordan (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Allen Lane
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 29, 2001
ISBN: 9780713990843
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Allen Lane
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 29, 2001
ISBN: 9780713990843
Page Count: 400
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: D116 .J67 2003
- Dewey: 940
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