First European Revolution 970-1215

Name: First European Revolution 970-1215
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ISBN: 9780631222774

ISBN-10: 0631222774

ISBN-13: 9780631222774

Edition: 2000

Authors: Robert I. Moore

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This book provides a radical reassessment of Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries. Professor Moore argues that the period witnessed the first true revolution in European society, characterized by a transformation in the economy, in family structures, and in the sources of power and the means by which it was exercised. Together these changes brought into being for the first time an autonomous city-supporting civilization in non-Mediterranean Europe. The circumstances and outcome of this transformation, he demonstrates, not only shaped medieval and modern Europe but established enduring and fundamental characteristics which differentiated Europe from other world…

Book details

List price: $70.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/19/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Approach of the Millennium



Glad confident morning



The Faithful People



The Gifts of the Saints



An Age of Miracles



The Powerful and the Poor



The Urban Revolution



The Crisis of the Carolingian Regime



The End of Affluence



The Shaping of an Agrarian Economy



The Little Community



Sex and the Social Order



Family, Land and Power



Vying in Good Works



Chastity, Property and Obedience



Incest, Matrimony and Chivalry



Brothers in Christ



Apostacy and Betrayal



The Ruling Culture



The Highest Learning



The Giant' s Shoulders



New monarchy, new men



Courts and Courtiers



A Governing Passion



Doubt, Hesitation and Pain



Order Restored



Pious and Inflexible Severity



The Pursuit of Monopoly



The Community of the Faithful



Exporting the Revolution



The Europe of the New Regime


Notes


Bibliography


Index