The History of Medieval Europe

by Keen, Maurice

• ISBN13: 9780140136302
• ISBN10: 0140136304
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-09-12
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

A comprehensive, general survey of Europe from the ruins of the Roman Empire to the rise of the Ottoman Turks.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
The Middle Ages and Their Heritage: The Idea of the Unity of Christendom	11	(18)
Section One (c. 800--c. 1046)
The Revival of Empire--Charlemagne to Henry III	29	(18)
Serfdom and Feudalism	47	(14)
Religious and Political Ideals	61	(12)
Section Two (c. 1046--c. 1216)
Empire and Papacy--the Beginning of the Struggle	73	(11)
The Expansion of Europe	84	(11)
New Movements in Thought and Letters	95	(8)
The Twelfth-Century Revolution in Government	103	(14)
The Crusades	117	(18)
Innocent III--the Papacy Triumphant	135	(14)
Section Three (c. 1216--c. 1330)
The Universities and the Friars: St Thomas, St Francis, and Abbot Joachim	149	(13)
The Struggle of the Popes and the Hohenstaufen	162	(16)
The Crusade in the Thirteenth Century	178	(14)
France and England: The Growth of National Communities	192	(15)
Boniface VIII and the Onset of Crisis in the Church	207	(18)
Section Four (c. 1330--c. 1460)
Economic and Social Development in the Later Middle Ages	225	(19)
The Hundred Years War	244	(16)
Politics and Political Society in an Age of Wars	260	(17)
Upheaval in the Church: Avignon, the Great Schism and the Councils	277	(23)
Europe and the Infidel After the Crusades	300	(14)
Epilogue: The Break With Traditional Attitudes	314	(9)
Appendix: Tables of the Royal Houses and Popes	323	(6)
Bibliography	329	(10)
Index	339