Title: Western Europe in the Middle Ages, 300-1475 /
Authors: Tierney, Brian.; Painter, Sidney, 1902-1960.; Painter, Sidney, 1902-1960.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill College,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Middle Ages; Europe, Western History.
Abstract: This chronological presentation of Western Europe in the Middle Ages provides the political, religious, intellectual, and economic history of the time. The revision of this text includes the latest historiography and more coverage of medieval society and women. --From publisher's description.
Contents: Foundations of Western history. Europe : land and people -- Roman, Christian, Barbarian : the ancient world transformed. The Roman Empire ; The Christian church ; The Barbarians -- The emergence of Europe. Byzantium, Frankish Gaul, and Rome ; The crisis of the Eighth Century ; The first Europe -- early Medieval Europe : a new society. The feudal world ; Agriculture and rural society ; Early Medieval government ; The reform of the church ; Europe and her neighbors -- The flowering of the Twelfth Century. Expansion of Europe : the first Crusades ; Economic revival and social change ; Religion and learning ; The feudal monarchies : empire and Papacy -- The harvest of Medieval civilization. Papal power and religious dissent ; The development of Medieval government ; The world of thought ; Architecture, art, and literature -- The Medieval world in crisis. An age of adversity ; The failure of Papal leadership ; The Hundred Years' War : Fourteenth-Century campaigns ; Late Medieval politics : a century of schisms ; Society, economy, and culture -- From Medieval to modern Europe. The end of the Hundred Years' War ; The end of the Great Schism ; The growth of national monarchy.