| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 481 pages) |
| Series |
A general history of Europe |
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General history of Europe.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF GENEALOGICAL TABLES AND MAPS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 THE SOURCES; Narrative sources; Public records and private papers; Involuntary evidence; 2 EUROPE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY; The economic geography of Europe at the beginning of the fourteenth century; The peoples of Europe in the later Middle Ages; The political scene; 3 SOCIETY AND ITS STRUCTURE: 1. THE PEASANTS: POPULATION TRENDS; The eve of the fourteenth century; The economic crisis of the fourteenth century; The peasants' revolts; Recovery and change |
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East-west contrastsPopulation trends in the later Middle Ages; 4 SOCIETY AND ITS STRUCTURE: 2. CLERGY, NOBILITY, TOWNSMEN; The clergy; The secular clergy; The regular clergy; The military orders; The nobility and gentry; The higher nobility; Lesser nobility and gentry; Chivalry and war; Townsmen; Slavery in Mediterranean towns; The size of towns; 5 THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GOVERNMENT; Political speculation; The place of the king; Conciliar thought; Kings and administration in western Europe: France and England; Local government; Royal administration in other parts of western Europe |
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Innovations of the later Middle AgesThe apanage; War and finance in France; Law and representation in France; England: taxation and parliament; Scotland; Spain; Councils and administration; Government in urban areas; German towns: the Hanseatic League; The Swiss; 6 POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN WESTERN EUROPE; England in the fourteenth century; England in the fifteenth century; Scotland; France in the fourteenth century; France after the Treaty of Arras; Spain in the later Middle Ages; The Hundred Years War; Crown and subject at the end of the fifteenth century; 7 ITALIANS AND ITALY |
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North Italy: Milan, Genoa, VeniceTuscany; The States of the Church and Rome; Naples and Sicily; Italian ideals and realities; 8 GERMANY AND HER NORTHERN NEIGHBOURS; The Empire: institutions and rulers; Princes, nobles, knights and towns: the Estates in Germany; The shrinking perimeter of Germany in the later Middle Ages; The kingdoms of Scandinavia; 9 EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE; The rise of the central monarchies; A short-lived Bohemian-Hungarian empire (1301-1306); Restoration of the Polish monarchy (1305-1333); Angevin victory over oligarchs in Hungary (1308-1342) |
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The establishment of the Romanian principalitiesTerritorial expansion and aristocratic rule under John of Bohemia (1310-1346); Consolidation of the Polish monarchy: Casimir the Great (1333-1370); Monarchy based on loyal magnates: Lewis the Great of Hungary (1342-1382); Golden decades of Bohemia under Emperor Charles IV (1346-1378); Baronial gains in the late fourteenth century; Origin and growth of noble power; Bohemia on the road to revolution; The Hussite revolution (1419-1436); The joint reign of Sigismund and his barons in Hungary (1387-1437) |
| Analysis |
Europe, 1300-1453 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Civilization, Medieval.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Civilization, Medieval
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Europa
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Europe -- 14e siècle.
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Europe -- 15e siècle.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317871903 |
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1317871901 |
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9781315836782 |
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1315836785 |
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9781317871910 |
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131787191X |
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9781317871897 |
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1317871898 |
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