The designations noble and knightly are adequate for the very early period , when every holder of a fief was a noble and a knight ; but by the thirteenth century these two terms had become restricted in their use and did not ordinarily ...
The revision of this classic, definitive text includes the latest historiography and more coverage of medieval society and women.
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Capturing the vigor and vitality of medieval times in an interesting and engaging manner, Strayer gives a vivid interpretation of the significance of medieval civilization, not of medieval history. This...
Western Europe in the Middle Ages: A Short History. 2d Ed
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This text covers the Middle Ages from the classical era to the late medieval period.
(London, 1980); joseph F. O'Callaghan, 'Castile, Portugal, and the Canary Islands: claims and counterclaims, 1344-1479', Viatar, 24 (1993), pp. 287—309; and for the later period in Felipe Fernéndez-Annesto, The Casey friandr afier {be ...
The most imaginative cluster of fables appeared in print the year after the Piper's mass murders, when William Caxton published Sir Thomas Malory's Le morte d' Arthur. Later, bowdlerized versions of this great work have obscured the ...
One Thousand Years: Western Europe in the Middle Ages
This book traces across the millennium of the Middle Ages the gradual crystallisation of a new and distinctive European identity.