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Europe in the central Middle Ages, 962-1154 / Christopher Brooke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooke, Christopher, 1927-2015.
- Series:
- General history of Europe
- A general history of Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Europe.
- History.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Middle Ages--History.
- Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.
- Local Subjects:
- Middle Ages--History.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 470 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2000.
- Summary:
- "This is the first" new edition" of this wide-ranging introduction since 1987! This best-seller explores the emergence of the distinctive character of medieval Europe during this period. Christopher Brooke examines the reform and revival of the Papacy, the heyday of the medieval Empire, the rise of the Normans, the early Crusades, explores the role of women in the period and this new edition devotes more attention to central Europe - Bohemia, Hungary and Poland. Will be of tremendous interest to anyone interested in the medieval history. ALSO AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER: 0-582-36905-3.
- Contents:
- The millennium 1
- Some paradoxes 4
- 962 to 1154 11
- Chronicle and history 14
- 1. Liudprand to Lampert 14
- 2. Orderic to John of Salisbury 20
- Byzantine historians 25
- Exceptional narratives 26
- Biography 27
- Letters 30
- Other literary sources 31
- Documents 32
- Forgery 34
- Vernacular literature 36
- Architecture, art and archaeology 37
- Coins 38
- Other materials 39
- 3 The shape of Europe 41
- Islam 41
- Muslim Spain 43
- The Byzantine Empire 46
- The Viking world 50
- Russia 54
- Central Europe 56
- Western Europe 1. Internal physical boundaries 62
- 2. Political frontiers 64
- The languages of Europe 67
- 4 Economic life 72
- The economics of building 73
- Currency 79
- The slave trade 82
- Trade in general 83
- Technological advance 85
- Agriculture and colonisation 86
- The conditions of economic progress 90
- 5 Society 91
- Population 91
- Barons and knights 96
- Freedom, serfdom and slavery 108
- Merchants and artisans 112
- The clergy 116
- 6 The role of women 121
- Queens and empresses 124
- Women religious 130
- 7 Marriage 142
- Georges Duby and the two models 142
- Law and practice in the early Middle Ages 144
- The Church takes control 145
- Annulment and consanguinity 147
- Jack Goody and Peter Damian 147
- What is marriage?
- Gratian and Alexander III 149
- The Church and the aristocracy 151
- The history of marriage 154
- 8 Cities and towns 155
- England, Tuscany and Umbria: a contrast 155
- The Italian city republics 156
- Rome 160
- Venice, Verona, Milan 162
- Bologna, Genoa, Pisa 165
- Todi, San Gimignano 166
- Spain
- Cordoba 168
- Northern cities 169
- London 170
- Northern communes
- Laon, Bruges 172
- 9 Travel 174
- Prologue: John of Salisbury 174
- Monastic stability and movement 175
- Pilgrimages to Conques, Vezelay, Compostela 177
- Rome and Jerusalem: the Crusades 178
- The popular view of the crusades 182
- Merchants, boats and trade 187
- The wandering scholars 190
- 10 Kingship and government 192
- Kingship 192
- War and marriage 194
- Weapons and recruitment 196
- Law and administration 200
- Divine right: anointing and coronation 207
- Charlemagne and the imperial idea 210
- King-making 215
- 11 The Empire, 962-1056 222
- The Ottos 223
- From Henry II to Henry III 234
- 12 From the Salians to the Hohenstaufen 242
- Henry IV 242
- Henry V 249
- The rise of the Hohenstaufen 251
- 13 The kingdom of the French 255
- The resources of the monarchy 255
- Aquitaine and Burgundy 258
- The principalities of northern France 259
- The Capetian kings 261
- 14 Britain and the Vikings, 959-1035 269
- 15 The Normans 275
- The Normans and their myth 275
- The Normans in Normandy 277
- The Normans in England 278
- The Norman settlement and Domesday Book 280
- The Normans and Britain 282
- William II, Henry I and Stephen 284
- In Italy and Sicily 289
- 16 The crusades, Byzantium and Spain 294
- The Byzantine Empire: the reign of Alexius I 294
- The First Crusade 297
- Byzantium and the Latin kingdoms 303
- The Second Crusade 305
- Christianity and Islam in the Spanish peninsula 307
- 17 Monasticism and papal reform 312
- Cluny, Gorze and Glastonbury 312
- The origins of the papal reform 322
- 18 The papal conflicts 340
- Gregory VII and Henry IV: the issues 340
- 1073-77: The road to Canossa 345
- 1077-1106 352
- The investiture issue in England and France 355
- Pope and Emperor 1106-22 356
- The papacy, 1122-53 360
- 19 The new monastic orders 363
- The reformation of the twelfth century 368
- The Cistercians 371
- 20 Schools and scholarship 378
- The schools 378
- Grammar, rhetoric and dialectic 380
- Theology: St Anselm 385
- Theology and humanism: Abelard 387
- Canon law 391
- Gratian 393
- 21 Popular religion 397
- Outcasts and persecution 397
- Religion, art and architecture 402
- Heresies 412
- Life in the world: the layman's religion 415.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0582369053
- 0582369045
- OCLC:
- 42700269
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