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The history of the medieval world : from the conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade / by Bauer, S. Wise.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Unity: One empire, under God ; Seeking the mandate of Heaven ; An empire of the mind ; The Persian threat ; The apostate ; Earthquake and invasion ; Refounding the Kingdom ; The Catholic church -- Fractures: Excommunicated ; Cracked in two ; The sack of Rome ; One nature versus two ; Seeking a homeland ; The Gupta decline ; Northern ambitions ; The Huns ; Attila ; Orthodoxy ; The high kings ; The end of the Roman myth -- New powers: The Ostrogoths ; Byzantium ; Aspirations ; Resentment ; Elected kings ; Invasion and eruption ; The Americas ; Great and holy majesty ; Pestilence ; The heavenly sovereign ; Reunification ; The South Indian kings ; Two emperors ; The mayors of the palaces ; Gregory the Great ; The Persian crusade ; The prophet ; Tang dominance ; The tribe of faith ; Intersection ; The troubles of empire -- States and kingdoms: Law and language ; Creating the past ; The days of the empress ; Paths into Europe ; The Kailasa of the South ; Purifications ; The Abbasids ; Charlemagne ; The An Lushan rebellion ; Imperator et Augustus ; The new Sennacherib ; Castle lords and regents ; The triumph of the outsiders ; The third dynasty ; The Vikings ; Long-lived kings ; Foreign and domestic relations ; The second caliphate ; The great army of the Vikings ; Struggle for the iron crown ; Kampaku ; Basileus ; The creation of Normandy ; The kingdom of Germany ; The turn of the wheel ; The capture of Baghdad ; Three kingdoms ; Kings of England ; The baptism of the Rus -- Crusades: The holy Roman emperor ; The hardship of sacred war ; Basil the Bulgar-slayer ; Defending the mandate ; The new found land ; Schism ; Danish domination ; The Norman conquest ; The kings of Spain ; The arrival of the Turks ; The loss of the song ; Repentance at Canossa ; The call ; Fighting for Jerusalem ; Aftershocks.From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T'ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled. In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and the twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action--right thus replaces might as the engine of empire. Not just Christianity and Islam but the religions of the Persians and the Germans, and even Buddhism, are pressed into the service of the state. This phenomenon--stretching from the Americas all the way to Japan--changes religion, but it also changes the state.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Middle Ages.; Civilization, Medieval.;
© ©2010., W.W. Norton,
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The civilization of the Middle Ages : a completely revised and expanded edition of Medieval history, the life and death of a civilization / by Cantor, Norman F.; Cantor, Norman F.Medieval history.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-576) and index.The heritage of the ancient world -- The foundations of the Middle Ages -- The age of the barbarian invasions -- Justinian and Mohammed -- The advance of ecclesiastical leadership -- The making of Carolingian kingship -- Culture and society in the first Europe -- Ecclesia and mundus -- Byzantium, Islam, and the West -- Europe in 1050 -- The Gregorian world revolution -- The Anglo-Norman monarchy and the emergence of the bureaucratic state -- The first crusade and after -- The intellectual expansion of Europe -- Moslem and Jewish thought: the Aristotelian challenge -- Varieties of religious experience -- The entrenchment of secular leadership -- The peace of Innocent III -- The new consensus and its limitations -- The search for order -- Late medieval and Renaissance culture.Surveys the history of the Middle Ages, describes the most influential political and social forces, and looks at everyday life.
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval.; Middle Ages.;
© 1994., HarperPerennial,
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The making of the Middle Ages / by Southern, R. W.(Richard William),1912-2001.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265) and index.Latin Christendom and its neighbours -- The bonds of society -- The ordering of the Christian life -- The tradition of thought -- From epic to romance.
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval.; Middle Ages.; Middle Ages;
© [1992], Yale University Press,
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The Middle Ages / by Bishop, Morris,1893-1973.;
In this single indispensable volume, one of Americas ranking scholars combines a lifes work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration. Both authoriatative and beautifully told, THE MIDDLE AGES is the full story of the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance - a time that saw the rise of kings and emperors, the flowering of knighthood, the development of Europe, the increasing power of the Church, and the advent of the middle class. With exceptional grace and wit, Morris Bishop vividly reconstructs this distinctive era of European history in a work that will inform and delight scholars and general readers alike.
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval.; Middle Ages.;
© 2001., Houghton Mifflin Co.,
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The black death and the transformation of the west / by Herlihy, David.; Cohn, Samuel Kline.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-110 and index.
Subjects: Black death; Diseases and history.; Civilization, Medieval.; Renaissance.;
© 1997., Harvard University Press,
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Thinking medieval : an introduction to the study of the Middle Ages / by Bull, Marcus Graham.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Popular images of the Middle Ages -- What are the 'Middle Ages'? -- The evidence for medieval history -- Is medieval history relevant?This book examines the place of the Middle Ages in modern popular culture, exploring the roots of the stereotypes that appear in films, on television and in the press. The book also asks whether "medieval" is indeed a useful category in terms of historical periodization. It investigates some of the particular challenges posed by medieval sources and the ways in which they have survived, and concludes with an exploration of the relevance of medieval history in today's world.
Subjects: Middle Ages; Civilization, Medieval; Middle Ages; Medievalism.;
© 2005., Palgrave Macmillan,
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The Middle Ages : everyday life in Medieval Europe / by Forgeng, Jeffrey L.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-283, 288-298) and index.
Subjects: Middle Ages.; Civilization, Medieval.; Cities and towns, Medieval;
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The making of the modern mind : a survey of the intellectual background of the present age / by Randall, John Herman,Jr.,1899-1980.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy, Medieval.; Philosophy, Renaissance; Civilization, Western; Civilization, Western History; Intellectual life History; Philosophy, Medieval History; Philosophy, Modern History; Philosophy, Renaissance History;
© 1976, c1940., Columbia University Press,
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The last knight : the twilight of the Middle Ages and the birth of the modern era / by Cantor, Norman F.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-250) and index.Introduction -- 1: Old Europe -- 2: Great families -- 3: Plantagenet England -- 4: Women -- 5: Warriors -- 6: Spain -- 7: Church -- 8: Peasants -- 9: Politics -- 10: Chaucer -- 11: End of the Middle Ages -- Sources -- Index.From the Publisher: There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, yet gallantry, chivalry, and literary brilliance flourished in the courts of England and elsewhere. It was a world in transition, soon to be replaced by the Renaissance and the Age of Exploration-and John of Gaunt was its central figure. In today's terms, John of Gaunt was a multibillionaire with a brand name equal to Rockefeller. He fought in the Hundred Years' War, sponsored Chaucer and proto-Protestant religious thinkers, and survived the dramatic Peasants' Revolt, during which his sumptuous London residence was burned to the ground. As head of the Lancastrian branch of the Plantagenet family, Gaunt was the unknowing father of the War of the Roses; after his death, his son usurped the crown from his nephew, Richard II. Gaunt's adventures represent the culture and mores of the Middle Ages as those of few others do, and his death is portrayed in The Last Knight as the end of that enthralling period.
Subjects: Middle Ages.; Civilization, Medieval; John, of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, 1340-1399.; Nobility;
© 2005., Harper Perennial,
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Marco Polo and the discovery of the world / by Larner, John,1930-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-242).Images of Asia and the coming of the Mongols -- The Polos -- Marco Polo and Rustichello -- The making of the book -- The description of the world -- Varieties of the book -- Marco, merchants and missionaries -- Marco among the humanists -- Columbus and after -- Jesuits, imperialists and a conclusion -- A note on manuscripts of the book -- Times of travel to China by land -- Marco Polo and world maps of the fifteenth century.
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?; Voyages and travels.; Travel, Medieval.; Polo, Marco.; Polo, Marco; Polo, Marco.; Exploration; Cartography; Explorers; Civilization, Medieval;
© c1999., Yale University Press,
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