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Established as the best general introduction to the period. Within a firm political narrative it considers the emergence of the distinctive character of medieval Europe. The second edition contains new perspectives on the history of the religious orders, on scholarship, popular religion, architecture and art, and new material on the impact of travel and communication, marriage and the family, and the study of cities.

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

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Christopher Brooke, the former Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University and a life fellow of Conville and Caius College, Cambridge, is a leading scholar of medieval history. He is a fellow of the British Academy and corresponding fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.