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1 online resource (416 pages) |
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Koenigsberger and Briggs History of Europe |
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Koenigsberger and Briggs History of Europe
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of maps; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; Chapter 1 The End of the Ancient World and the Beginning of the Middle Ages, 400-700; The Roman Empire in AD 400; The resources of the Roman Empire; Theories of the fall of the Roman Empire in the west; The German barbarians; The division of the Roman Empire; The first sack of Rome; Attila and the empire of the Huns; The German kingdoms in the Roman Empire; The end of the Roman Empire in the west; The Ostrogoths in Italy; The Roman Empire in the east: Justinian |
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The reconquest of the western MediterraneanByzantium and Persia; The barbarian successor states; The christianization of the Empire; The visual arts; Conclusions; Chapter 2 The Carolingian Empire and the Invasions of Europe, 700-1000; The climate; Population and settlements; Family structure and settlements; Agricultural yields and mortality rates; Economic structure; The kingdom of the Franks; Charlemagne (768-814); Britain and England; The Vikings; The Danish Empire; The development of feudalism; New principalities in the west; Germany; Eastern Europe; Islam and the Arab conquests |
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ByzantiumEcclesiastical organization and monasticism; The Carolingian Renaissance; Conclusion; Chapter 3 The Recovery of the West, the Crusades and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, 1000-1200; The first Christian millennium; The European kingdoms in the eleventh century; Central and eastern Europe; The Church and the papacy in the eleventh century; Western Europe in the twelfth century; Empire and papacy in the twelfth century; Russia; The Islamic world; Byzantium; The western counter-offensive; The intellectual Renaissance of the eleventh and twelfth centuries; Conclusion: Europe in 1200 |
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Chapter 4 The High Middle Ages, 1200-1340The climate; Population; Agricultural expansion; Manufactures: the craft guilds; Capitalism and new techniques in trade; Royal government; The decline of internationalism; Conquests; Governments: law and community; Papacy, empire and state; Religious life; The fourth crusade and the fall of Byzantium; The Mongol invasions; Intellectual life, literature and art; Conclusion; Chapter 5 The Later Middle Ages: Transalpine Europe, 1340-1500; The Black Death 1348-50; Agriculture: the end of serfdom; Towns and trade; The European kingdoms |
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Central, eastern and northern EuropeThe papacy at Avignon; New forms of religious life; Catholic Europe and the outside world; Byzantium and the Ottoman Turks; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Medieval City Culture: Central Europe, Italy and the Renaissance, 1300-1500; The cities of the Later Middle Ages; The Renaissance: intellectual life; Music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance; Conclusion; Index |
| Summary |
This book traces across the millennium of the Middle Ages the gradual crystallisation of a new and distinctive European identity. Koenigsberger covers the Islamic, Byzantine and central Asian worlds in his account which explains Europe's progression from chaos and collapse to the point where it was set to rule much of the world |
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Print version record |
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Middle Ages.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Civilization, Medieval
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Middle Ages
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Europe -- History -- 476-1492. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045690
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Europe -- History -- To 476.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045688
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317870883 |
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1317870883 |
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