"Charlemagne remains one of the most compelling figures in European history. In this lively, vivid portrait of an extraordinary monarch and his achievements, Roger Collins profiles the most powerful and significant ruler in Western Europe between the end of the Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance. While his achievements were in some ways ephemeral (after all, his great empire soon broke up), he can still clearly be seen as the figure who transformed the nature of Europe and ushered in a period which has an explicit and comprehensible connection with our own."--[book jacket].
The monastic movement founded by Benedict at Monte Cassino had great influence on the subsequent history of the Church . Through the efforts of Pope Gregory , Saint Augustine , and other reformers , Benedict's rules became the accepted ...
mit Spindler - Schülern besetzt « , erregte sich Karl Bosl gegenüber Schlesinger über die Ausdehnung der Münchener Geschichtswissenschaft im Kreis um Max Spindler.80 Doch auch andernorts wurde gelegentlich an den üblichen ...
The medieval period of European history was packed with dramatic events: wars, coronations, pageants and plagues affected everyone.
4 K. E. Lacey , ' Women and work in fourteenth- and fifteenth - century London ' , in L. Charles and L. Duffin ( eds . ) Women and Work in Pre - Industrial England , London , 1985 , pp . 24-82 ; C. M. Barron , ' The “ Golden Age ” of ...
Dawn of the Middle Ages
This is a radical new examination of relations between rulers, nobles, and freemen, the distillation of wide-ranging research by a leading medieval historian. It has revolutionized the way we think of the Middle Ages.
A highly-illustrated series that explores the lives of people in past civilisations
John Fleming has charged David Knowles with obtuseness for not recognizing that when , on the eve of the reformation , the abbot of Fountains wrote to the head of his order at Citeaux that he was sending him a shipment of roses and ...
KOEHLER , E. , ' Observations historiques et sociologiques sur la poésie des troubadours ' , Cahiers de Civilisation ... The Lancashire Pipe Rolls of 31 Henry I and of the reigns of Henry II , Richard I and King John ... also early ...
Tracing the career of brilliant visionary Pope Sylvester II, Richard Erdoes has composed a vivid tapestry of a century frighteningly similar to our present one. --publisher description.