Europe in the Central Middle Ages: 962-1154

by Brooke,Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780582369047
• ISBN10: 0582369045
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-01-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

 This wide-ranging introduction to medieval Europe has been updated and revised. In his popular survey Brooke explores the variety of human experience in the period. He looks at society, economy, religious life and popular religion, learning, culture, as well as political events; the rise of the Normans and the heyday of the medieval Empire. For the new edition there is increased coverage of the role of women and more attention to central Europe, Bohemia, Hungary and Poland.

Author Biography

Christopher Brooke is Dixie Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge, and Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.

Table of Contents

List of genealogical charts	ix
List of maps	x
Preface	xi
Abbreviations	xvii
Introduction	1	(12)
The millennium	1	(3)
Some paradoxes	4	(7)
962 to 1154	11	(2)
Sources	13	(28)
Chronicle and history	14	(1)
1. Liudprand to Lampert	14	(6)
2. Orderic to John of Salisbury	20	(5)
Byzantine historians	25	(1)
Exceptional narratives	26	(1)
Biography	27	(3)
Letters	30	(1)
Other literary sources	31	(1)
Documents	32	(2)
Forgery	34	(2)
Vernacular literature	36	(1)
Architecture, art and archaeology	37	(1)
Coins	38	(1)
Other materials	39	(2)
The shape of Europe	41	(31)
Islam	41	(2)
Muslim Spain	43	(3)
The Byzantine Empire	46	(4)
The Viking world	50	(4)
Russia	54	(2)
Central Europe	56	(6)
Western Europe
1. Internal physical boundaries	62	(2)
2. Political frontiers	64	(3)
The languages of Europe	67	(5)
Economic life	72	(19)
The economics of building	73	(6)
Currency	79	(3)
The slave trade	82	(1)
Trade in general	83	(2)
Technological advance	85	(1)
Agriculture and colonisation	86	(4)
The conditions of economic progress	90	(1)
Society	91	(30)
Population	91	(5)
Barons and knights	96	(12)
Freedom, serfdom and slavery	108	(4)
Merchants and artisans	112	(4)
The clergy	116	(5)
The role of women	121	(21)
Queens and empresses	124	(6)
Women religious	130	(12)
Marriage	142	(13)
Georges Duby and the two models	142	(2)
Law and practice in the early Middle Ages	144	(1)
The Church takes control	145	(2)
Annulment and consanguinity	147	(1)
Jack Goody and Peter Damian	147	(2)
What is marriage?- Gratian and Alexander III	149	(2)
The Church and the aristocracy	151	(3)
The history of marriage	154	(1)
Cities and towns	155	(19)
England, Tuscany and Umbria: a contrast	155	(1)
The Italian city republics	156	(4)
Rome	160	(2)
Venice, Verona, Milan	162	(3)
Bologna, Genoa, Pisa	165	(1)
Todi, San Gimignano	166	(2)
Spain - Cordoba	168	(1)
Northern cities	169	(1)
London	170	(2)
Northern communes - Laon, Bruges	172	(2)
Travel	174	(18)
Prologue: John of Salisbury	174	(1)
Monastic stability and movement	175	(2)
Pilgrimages to Conques, Vezelay, Compostela	177	(1)
Rome and Jerusalem: the Crusades	178	(4)
The Popular view of the crusades	182	(5)
Merchants, boats and trade	187	(3)
The wandering scholars	190	(2)
Kingship and government	192	(30)
Kingship	192	(2)
War and marriage	194	(2)
Weapons and recruitment	196	(4)
Law and administration	200	(7)
Divine right: anointing and coronation	207	(3)
Charlemagne and the imperial idea	210	(5)
King-making	215	(7)
The Empire, 962-1056	222	(20)
The Ottos	223	(11)
From Henry II to Henry III	234	(8)
From the Salians to the Hohenstaufen	242	(13)
Henry IV	242	(7)
Henry V	249	(2)
The rise of the Hohenstaufen	251	(4)
The kingdom of the French	255	(14)
The resources of the monarchy	255	(3)
Aquitaine and Burgundy	258	(1)
The principalities of northern France	259	(2)
The Capetian kings	261	(8)
Britain and the Vikings, 959-1035	269	(6)
The Normans	275	(19)
The Normans and their myth	275	(2)
The Normans in Normandy	277	(1)
The Normans in England	278	(2)
The Norman settlement and Domesday Book	280	(2)
The Normans and Britain	282	(2)
William II, Henry I and Stephen	284	(5)
In Italy and Sicily	289	(5)
The crusades, Byzantium and Spain	294	(18)
The Byzantine Empire: the reign of Alexius I	294	(3)
The First Crusade	297	(6)
Byzantium and the Latin kingdoms	303	(2)
The Second Crusade	305	(2)
Christianity and Islam in the Spanish peninsula	307	(5)
Monasticism and papal reform	312	(28)
Cluny, Gorze and Glastonbury	312	(10)
The origins of the papal reform	322	(18)
The papal conflicts	340	(23)
Gregory VII and Henry IV: the issues	340	(5)
1073-77: The road to Canossa	345	(7)
1077-1106	352	(3)
The investiture issue in England and France	355	(1)
Pope and Emperor, 1106-22	356	(4)
The papacy, 1122-53	360	(3)
The new monastic orders	363	(15)
The reformation of the twelfth century	368	(3)
The Cistercians	371	(7)
Schools and scholarship	378	(19)
The schools	378	(2)
Grammar, rhetoric and dialectic	380	(5)
Theology: St Anselm	385	(2)
Theology and humanism: Abelard	387	(4)
Canon law	391	(2)
Gratian	393	(4)
Popular religion	397	(22)
Outcasts and persecution	397	(5)
Religion, art and architecture	402	(10)
Heresies	412	(3)
Life in the world: the layman's religion	415	(4)
Epilogue	419	(1)
Appendix: chronological lists	420	(5)
Bibliography	425	(12)
Genealogical charts	437	(6)
Maps	443	(8)
Index	451