The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World

by Jotischky, Andrew; Hull, Caroline; Hall, Simon; Haywood, John

• ISBN13: 9780141014494
• ISBN10: 0141014490
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-25
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps - explores the Middle Ages from the coming of the barbarian invasions in the fourth century to the first voyages to the New World in the sixteenth. Coverage of major events - the Hundred Years' War, the Christian Reconquest of Spain - is supplemented by discussion of such key topics as the medieval economy, the growth of towns and the spread of printing, resulting in a rich and multi-faceted introduction to Europe and its neighbours in the Middle Ages.

Author Biography

Andrew Jotischky is senior lecturer in medieval history at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. He is the author of several books on medieval monasticism and the Crusades.
Caroline Hull has taught art history and medieval history at the universities of Manchester and Lancaster.

Table of Contents

Introduction	8	(2)
Timeline	10	(4)
Part I: The Early Middle Ages	14	(20)
The Barbarian Kingdoms	20	(2)
The Conversion of Europe	22	(2)
The Arab Conquests	24	(2)
The Carolingian Empire	26	(2)
Early Medieval Britain and Ireland	28	(2)
The Vikings	30	(2)
The Origins of France and Germany	32	(2)
Part II: The Revival of Europe	34	(50)
The Papacy	40	(2)
The Holy Roman Empire	42	(2)
Feudal France	44	(2)
The Normans	46	(2)
Norman Sicily	48	(2)
The Angevin Empire	50	(2)
The Kingdoms of Hungary and Poland	52	(2)
The Medieval Church	54	(2)
Benedictine Monasticism	56	(2)
The New Monastic Orders	58	(2)
Pilgrimage Routes	60	(2)
Romanesque and Gothic Cathedrals	62	(2)
Castles	64	(2)
Universities and Intellectual Life	66	(2)
Heretic Movements and the Friars	68	(2)
European Jewry	70	(2)
The Medieval Economy	72	(2)
The Medieval Countryside	74	(2)
The Growth of Towns	76	(2)
Flanders and the Cloth Industry	78	(2)
German Settlement in Eastern Europe	80	(2)
English Wars in the British Isles	82	(2)
Part III: Latin Europe and its Neighbours	84	(28)
The Byzantine Empire	90	(2)
Kievan Russia	92	(2)
Moorish Spain	94	(2)
The Islamic Middle East	96	(2)
The Crusades to the Holy Land	98	(2)
The Military Orders	100	(2)
The Revival of Islamic Power	102	(2)
The Latin Empire of Constantinople	104	(2)
The Baltic Crusades	106	(2)
The Reconquest of Spain	108	(2)
Europe and the Mongols	110	(2)
Part IV: The Later Middle Ages	112	(24)
The Hundred Years War	118	(2)
The Black Death	120	(2)
The Hanseatic League	122	(2)
Disaffection with the Papacy	124	(2)
Italy at the Beginning of the Renaissance	126	(2)
The Ottoman Invasion of Europe	128	(2)
The Spread of Printing	130	(2)
Portuguese Voyages of Discovery	132	(2)
The First Voyages to the New World	134	(2)
Dynastic Tables	136	(2)
Further Reading	138	(1)
Index	139	(5)
Acknowledgements	144