Europe and the Middle Ages

Name: Europe and the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780130967725

ISBN-10: 0130967726

ISBN-13: 9780130967725

Edition: 4th 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Edward M. Peters

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For one/two-semester undergraduate courses in Medieval History. This comprehensive, well-balanced historical survey of Medieval Europefrom Roman imperial provinces to the Renaissancecovers all aspects of the history (political, literary, religious, intellectual, etc.) with a focus on social and political themes. It presents a complete picture of the complex process by which an ecumenical civilization that once ringed the basin of the Mediterranean Sea, evolved into three other distinctive civilizationsLatin Europe, Greek Eastern Europe and Asia Minor, and Islam. This text differs from others on the subject in that it attempts to abolish traditional cliches regarding the Middle Ages and…

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List price: $133.32
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 6/23/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.806



Prologue: Europa: Myth and Landscape



Late Mediterranean Antiquity and Early Northern Europe



The Beginning and End of the Roman Peace



Religion and Society in Late Antiquity



The Roman and Other Worlds Transformed



Two Heirs of the Roman World



The Making of Byzantine Civilization



The House of Islam



The Expanding Latin West, 550-950



Rome and the West



Land, People, and Kings in MerovingianFrancia



The Book and the Sword



Europe Emerges



Christendom: Authority and Enterprise, 950-1100



Material Civilization



Power and Society



Christendom East and West



Culture and Society in the High Middle Ages, 1150-1325



New Art and New Learning



The Church and the World



The Political Culture of Christian Europe



Reason and Imagination in the Thirteenth Century



Christendom and Europe, 1325-1500



Apocalypse Then?


Crisis and Recovery in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries



Clergy and Laity



Power and Order



Frontiers and Horizons


Epilogue:Empress Europaand her Ambassadors


Appendix


General Bibliography


Index