Atlas of Medieval Europe

by MacKay, Angus; Ditchburn, David

• ISBN13: 9780415019231
• ISBN10: 0415019230
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Covering the period from the fall of the Roman Empire through to the beginnings of the Renaissance, this indispensable volume brings the complex and colorful history of the Middle Ages to life. It investigates the major political, social and cultural changes, showing their spread throughout the middle ages, and takes into account recent developments in scholarship. It also includes geographical coverage, extending the broadest definition of Europe from the Atlantic coast to the Russian steppes; maps addressing a separate issue or series of events in Medieval history, with a commentary locating it in its broader context; and maps providing a vivid representation of the development of nations, peoples and social structures. With over 140 maps, expert commentaries and an extensive bibliography, this is the essential reference for students at all levels, libraries and all those who want a thorough, geographically based guide to medieval Europe.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Contributors	x
PHYSICAL EUROPE
Western Europe: Physical Features	3	(4)
THE EARLY MIDDLEAGES (to c. 1100)
Politics
The Roman Empire in 395 AD	7	(1)
Barbarian Migrations of the Fourth and Fifth Centuries	8	(1)
Barbarian Kingdoms in the First Half of Sixth Century	9	(1)
Merovingian Gaul, c. 600	10	(2)
The Empire of Justinian, 527-65	12	(2)
The Expansion of Islam in the Mediterranean Area (7th-9th centuries)	14	(2)
Italy in the Eighth Century	16	(2)
The Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne, 768-814	18	(3)
Division of the Carolingian Empire, 843	21	(1)
The Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian Dynasty (9th-11th Centuries)	21	(2)
Vikings	23	(2)
Magyars	25	(1)
The East European States, c. 1000	26	(2)
France and its Principalities, c. 1000	28	(2)
England Before the Normans	30	(3)
The Spanish and Portuguese Reconquest to c. 1140	33	(2)
The Ottonian Empire, 962	35	(3)
Religion
Christianity and Paganism in the West, c. 350-750	38	(2)
Early Monasticism to 547	40	(2)
Northern European Monasticism	42	(2)
Byzantine Missions among the Slavs	44	(1)
Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Centres of Reform	45	(1)
Episcopal Sees in Europe at the End of the Tenth Century	46	(4)
The Influx of Relics into Saxony	50	(1)
Government, Society and Economy
Royal Carolingian Residential Villas	51	(1)
Burhs and Mints in Late Anglo-Saxon England	52	(1)
Royal Itineraries: Eleventh-Century France and Germany	53	(2)
England under William I	55	(2)
Hamwic: Anglo-Saxon Southampton	57	(1)
Dorestad	57	(1)
Constantinople	58	(1)
Early Medieval Rome	59	(1)
Ravenna	60	(1)
Trade Routes of the Carolingian Empire	61	(2)
The Economy of San Vincenzo al Volturno	63	(2)
Culture
Irish and Anglo-Saxon Centres on the Continent in the Early Middle Ages	65	(1)
Bede's World	66	(5)
THE CENTRAL MIDDLE AGES (c. 1100-c. 1300)
Politics
Angevins and Capetians in the Late Twelfth Century	71	(1)
Frederick Barbarossa and Germany, 1152-90	72	(1)
Frederick Barbarossa and the Lombard League	72	(3)
The Empire of the Comneni, 1081-1185	75	(2)
Anglo-Norman Penetration of Wales and Ireland	77	(2)
Scotland in the Central Middle Ages	79	(5)
The Normans in Southern Italy and Sicily	84	(1)
Where Did the Crusaders Come From?	85	(1)
The Routes of the First Crusade	86	(1)
The Second and Third Crusades	87	(1)
The Crusades of the Emperor Frederick II and St Louis	88	(1)
The Crusader States	89	(2)
The Templar Network	91	(1)
Crusader Jerusalem	92	(1)
Crusader Acre	93	(1)
Frederick II, the Papacy and Italy	93	(3)
Italy in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century	96	(1)
The Ostsiedlung	97	(2)
Scandinavia, the Germans and the Baltic	99	(3)
The Premyslide-Habsburg Conflict in Central Europe	102	(2)
The Mongol-Tatar Invasions of the Thirteenth Century and Their Impact on the West	104	(2)
France in the Reign of Philip the Fair	106	(1)
The Spanish and Portuguese Reconquest During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries	107	(3)
Religion
Latin Episcopal Sees at the End of the Thirteenth Century	110	(4)
Cistercians, Premonstratensians and Others	114	(3)
Mendicants	117	(1)
Beguines and Beghards	117	(2)
The Papacy and the Conciliar Fathers of 1215	119	(1)
Shrines and Revivals: Popular Christianity, c. 1200 - c. 1300	119	(3)
Heresy, the Albigensian Crusade and the Inquisition, c. 1200 - c. 1240	122	(3)
Government, Society and Economy
Provisioning War in the Twelfth Century	125	(2)
The Rise of Representative Assemblies	127	(2)
European Fairs and Trade Routes	129	(2)
The Alpine Passes	131	(1)
The Larger Towns of Europe	132	(1)
Families of Town Law	133	(2)
The Contado of Lucca in the Twelfth Century	135	(2)
Communal Movements	137	(1)
Settlement Patterns in Medieval Italy	138	(3)
The Huerta of Valencia	141	(1)
The Thirteenth-Century Repopulation of Andalusia	142	(3)
Anti-Semitism, 1096-1306	145	(2)
Culture
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Translation and Transmission	147	(1)
Romanesque Europe	148	(1)
Gothic Europe	149	(1)
The Travels of Villard de Honnecourt	150	(2)
The Spread of the Old French Epic	152	(1)
Troubadours: Centres of Creativity and Travels of the Poets	153	(1)
Languages, c. 1200	154	(5)
THE LATE MIDDLE AGES (c. 1300 - c. 1500)
Politics
The Hundred Years War	159	(3)
The Growth of the Burgundian State	162	(2)
The Scottish Wars of Independence	164	(1)
Wales: The Principality and the Marches	164	(4)
Ireland: English and Gaelic Lordship, c. 1350	168	(2)
The Emergence of Switzerland	170	(1)
Late Medieval Scandanavia: Unity and Disunity	171	(1)
Emperors and Princes: Germany in the Later Middle Ages	172	(2)
Northern Italy from the Rise of the Signori to the Peace of Lodi	174	(2)
The Expansion of the Crown of Aragon	176	(1)
The Wars of the Roses	177	(2)
Late Medieval Scotland: Crown and Magnates, c. 1400 and c. 1460	179	(3)
Late Medieval Iberia	182	(2)
The Advance of the Turks and the Crusade in the Later Middle Ages	184	(2)
The Rise of Muscovy and the Union of Lithuania and Poland	186	(2)
Religion
The Avignon Papacy and Papal Fiscality	188	(1)
The Great Schism and the Councils	189	(2)
The Papal States	191	(1)
Byzantine Cultural and Monastic Centres	192	(2)
The Bohemian Lands and the Hussite Wars, 1415-37	194	(3)
Government, Society and Economy
The Growth of Royal Fiscality and Administration in France	197	(4)
Burgundian Administration	201	(1)
Castilian Corregidores	201	(3)
Representation at the Castilian Cortes, 1445-74	204	(1)
Parliamentary Representation in Later Medieval England	205	(1)
The Government of Later Medieval Germany	205	(4)
The Spread of the Black Death	209	(2)
The German Hanse	211	(2)
Financial Centres in Western Europe	213	(2)
Late Thirteenth-Century Brunswick	215	(1)
Istanbul	215	(1)
Novgorod in the Later Middle Ages	216	(1)
The Swabian Town League	216	(1)
Late Medieval Seville	217	(1)
Deserted English Villages	218	(1)
Late Medieval Transhumance in Western Europe	219	(3)
European Expansion at the End of the Middle Ages	222	(4)
The Jacquerie	226	(1)
The Peasants' Revolt of 1381	226	(3)
Christians, Jews and Conversos in Late Medieval Iberia	229	(1)
Consequences of the Black Death: Pogroms in Germany	230	(2)
Culture
Knightly Journeys	232	(1)
Margery Kempe	232	(3)
The Spread of Printing	235	(2)
Journeys of Major Italian Artists Between c. 1250 and c. 1400	237	(2)
The Rediscovery of Classical Texts	239	(2)
The Rise of Universities	241	(3)
Further Reading	244	(11)
Index	255