TY  - BOOK
AU  - Backman,Clifford R.
TI  - The worlds of medieval Europe
SN  - 9780199372294
AV  - D131.B126.W675 2015 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Civilization, Medieval
KW  - Feudalism
KW  - Europe
KW  - Monarchy
KW  - Kings and rulers, Medieval
KW  - Middle Ages
N1  - PART ONE:  THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES:  THE THIRD THROUGH NINTH CENTURIES --     --; The Roman world at its height --; The rise of Christianity --; Early Germanic society --; Cloister and culture --; The emergence of the medieval worlds --; The Carolingian era --; PART TWO:  THE CENTRAL MIDDLE AGES:  THE TENTH THROUGH TWELFTH CENTURIES --; The time of troubles --; Revolutions on land and sea --; A new Europe emerges: north and south --; The reform of the Church --; The renaissances of the twelfth century --; The papal monarchy --; PART THREE:   THE LATE MIDDLE AGES:  THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES --   --; Politics in the thirteenth century --; Art and intellect in the thirteenth century --; Daily life at the medieval zenith --; Changes in religious life --; The crises of the fourteenth century --; Signs of a new era --; PART FOUR: TWO EPILOGUES --; Closings in, closings out --; The Renaissance in medieval context --; Appendix [A-K. The medieval popes -- The Carolingians -- The Capetians -- France: the Valois -- England: the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties -- England: the Lancastrian and Yorkist dynasties -- Germany: the Ottonian, Salian, and Hohenstaufen dynasties -- Germany: the late medieval emperors -- The Spanish kingdoms, 1000-1250 -- The Spanish kingdoms, 1250-1500 -- The emperors in Constantinople; 4; b
N2  - Deftly written and beautifully illustrated, The Worlds of Medieval Europe, Third Edition, presents a distinctive and nuanced portrayal of the Greater West during its medieval millennium. By integrating the histories of the Islamic and Byzantine worlds into the main narrative, author Clifford R. Backman offers an insightful, detailed, and often witty look at the continuum of interaction -- social, cultural, intellectual, and commercial -- that existed among all three societies. This compelling volume surpasses traditional textbook representations of the Middle Ages by balancing the conventional focus on political affairs, especially those of northern Europe, with equally detailed attention to medieval society as it developed in the Mediterranean. In addition, Backman describes the ways in which the medieval Latin West attempted to understand the unified and rational structure of the human cosmos, which they believed existed beneath the observable diversity and disorder of the world. This effort to recreate a human ordering of "unity through diversity" provides an essential key to understanding medieval Europe and the ways in which it regarded and reacted to the worlds around it
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