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The later Middle Ages / edited by Isabella Lazzarini.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Short Oxford history of Europe
- The short Oxford history of Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle Ages.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Civilization.
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Europe.
- History.
- Europe--Civilization--To 1500.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 296 pages : illustrations, charts, maps; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This edited volume brings together experts on the later middle ages to chart the principle developments of medieval Europe.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: An end or a new beginning?
- Models and narratives
- Evidence
- Events
- Features
- 1. Power, Government, And Political Life / John Watts
- Political history
- -past and present
- The inheritance from the thirteenth century
- Political geography
- Patterns of conflict
- Consolidation
- Europe in 1500
- 2. The Economy / Christopher Dyer
- Population
- Explaining the crisis
- After the Black Death
- Market integration
- Technological progress
- Capital markets
- Urbanization and specialization
- Trade
- New developments on the late medieval economy
- 3. The Church And Religious Life / Robert Swanson
- Identifying `the church'
- The papacy
- Ecclesial ideas
- National and local churches
- The lower clergy
- The religious orders
- Spirituality
- Crusades
- Jews
- Witchcraft
- Heresy
- Anticlericalism
- The church in 1500
- 4. Culture And The Arts / Alexander Lee
- Patronage and consumption
- Literacy and the vernacular
- Humanism
- Architecture
- The visual arts
- Music
- Printing
- 5. Space, Time, And The World / Matthew Kempshall
- Assumptions and approach
- Evidence and extent
- Cosmography
- Geography
- Time and place
- Representations of place and time
- Discovery and rediscovery
- 6. Society, Family, And Gender / Catherine Kovesi
- Gender
- Patriarchy
- Roles of men and women
- Family, marriage, dowry, and inheritance
- Masculinity, femininity, norms of gender and of sexual practice
- Society and space
- The Querelle des femmes
- 7. Global Middle Ages: The East / Catherine Holmes
- Why study late medieval history globally?
- The late medieval world: advantages and problems of a global grand narrative
- Brokerage in fragmented political landscapes
- Beyond brokerage
- Networks, cultural capital, and power in the eastern Mediterranean
- Networks and power beyond the eastern Mediterranean.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780198731641
- 0198731647
- 9780198731634
- 0198731639
- OCLC:
- 1242750669
- Publisher Number:
- 99988347407
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