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Medieval Europe / Chris Wickham.
Author
Wickham, Chris, 1950-
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
vii, 335 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
D117 .W53 2016
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Middle Ages
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Social change
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Europe
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History
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To 1500
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Europe
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History
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476-1492
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Europe
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Social conditions
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To 1492
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Summary note
"The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period--one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne's reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, and political circumstances affected individual lives and international events. Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe's medieval period and a provocative revision of exactly how and why the Middle Ages matter"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-315) and index.
Contents
A new look at the Middle Ages
Rome and its Western successors, 500-750
Crisis and transformation in the East, 500-850-1000
The Carolingian experiment, 750-1000
The expansion of Christian Europe, 500-1100
Reshaping Western Europe, 1000-1150
The long economic boom, 950-1300
The ambiguities of political reconstruction, 1150-1300
1204 : the failure of alternatives
Defining society : gender and community in late medieval Europe
Money, war and death, 1350-1500
Rethinking politics, 1350-1500.
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ISBN
9780300208344 ((hardback ; : alkaline paper))
0300208340 ((hardback ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016018675
OCLC
945564293
International Article Number
9780300208344
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