The new Cambridge medieval history. Volume 4, C.1024-c.1198. Part 1 / edited by David Luscombe, Jonathan Riley-Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luscombe, D. E. (David Edward), editor.

Riley-Smith, Jonathan Simon Christopher, 1938- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--History--476-1492.

Middle Ages.

Civilization, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 917 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Summary:

The fourth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the eleventh and twelfth centuries, which comprised perhaps the most dynamic period in the European middle ages. This is a history of Europe, but the continent is interpreted widely to include the Near East and North Africa as well. The volume is divided into two parts of which this, the first, deals with themes, ecclesiastical and secular, and major developments in an age marked by the expansion of population, agriculture, trade, towns and the frontiers of western society; by a radical reform of the structure and institutions of the western church, and by fundamental changes in relationships with the eastern churches, Byzantium, Islam and the Jews; by the appearance of new kingdoms and states, and by the development of crusades, knighthood and law, Latin and vernacular literature, Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture, heresies and the scholastic movement.

Contents:

Introduction / David Luscombe and Jonathan Riley-Smith

The rural economy and demographic growth / Robert Fossier

Towns and the growth of trade / Derek Keene

Government and community / Susan Reynolds

The development of law / Peter Landau

Knightly society / Jean Flori

War, peace and the Christian order / Ernst-Dieter Hehl

The structure of the church, 1024-1073 / H.E.J. Cowdrey

Reform and the church, 1073-1122 / I.S. Robinson

Religious communities, 1024-1215 / Giles Constable

The institutions of the church, 1073-1216 / I.S. Robinson

Thought and learning / David Luscombe

Religion and the laity / Bernard Hamilton

The Crusades, 1095-1198 / Jonathan Riley-Smith

The Eastern churches / Jean Richard

Muslim Spain and Portugal: Al-Andalus and its neighbours / Hugh Kennedy

The Jews in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin / Robert Chazan

Latin and vernacular literature / Jan M. Ziolkowski

Architecture and the visual arts / Peter Kidson

Primary sources.

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ISBN:

9781139054027 (ebook)

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