A cultural study on everyday life in the Middle Ages.
Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation.
Topics covered include early migrations, state formation, monarchies, classes (nobles, landholders, peasants, herders, serfs, and slaves), towns, religion, war, governments, laws and justice, commerce and money, foreign affairs, ethnicity ...
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...
Daniel Power traces the history of Europe in the central Middle Ages (950-1320), an age of far-reaching change for the continent.
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 ...
This work has wide ramifications for understanding developments in medieval Europe, but so far the discussion has taken place only in Danish-language publications.
With a lucid and clear narrative style William Chester Jordan has turned his considerable talents to composing a standard textbook of the opening centuries of the second millennium in Europe.
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 work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
A groundbreaking comparative history of the formation of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, from their origins in the eleventh century.
This book aims to trace the development of Europe and its civilization, from the decline of the Roman Empire to the opening of the sixteenth century.