Why Europe?
Subtitle: medieval origins of its special path
By: Michael Mitterauer ; translated by Gerald Chapple.
Contributors: Chapple, Gerald.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226532530
Subjects: European federation -- History; Civilization, Medieval; Europe -- Civilization; Europe -- History -- 476-1492
Work titles: Warum Europa?
Notes: Translation of: Warum Europa? (München : C.H. Beck, 2003).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rye and oats : the agrarian revolution of the early middle ages; title: Manor and hide : the manorial roots of European social structures; title: The conjugal family and bilateral kinship : social flexibility through looser ties of descent; title: The feudal system and the estates : a special path of feudalism; title: The papal church and universal religious orders : Western Christendom as a highly organized religious community; title: The Crusades and protocolonialism : the roots of European expansionism; title: Preaching and printing : early modes of mass communication; title: "Through what concatenation of circumstances; title: ?" : interacting determinants of Europe's special path.