TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cantor,Norman F.
TI  - The civilization of the Middle Ages: A completely revised and expanded edition of medieval history, the life and death of a civilization 
SN  - 9780060925536
AV  - CB351 .C585 1994
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - HarperPerennial
KW  - Civilization, Medieval
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - European History
KW  - World History
KW  - History
N1  - "A completely revised and expanded edition of Medieval history, the life and death of a civilization."; 1 (pages 569-576) and index; The heritage of the ancient world  --; Politics and society --; Philosophy and religion; The foundations of the Middle Ages  --; From Judaism to Christianity --; Decline and fall --; The Roman destiny --; Patristic culture; The age of the Barbarian invasions  --; The Germans --; The first century of the invasions --; The Ostrogothic and Frankish kingdoms; Justinian and Mohammed  --; The nemesis of Byzantine power --; The impact of Islam on early medieval Europe; The advance of ecclesiastical leadership  --; The rise of monasticism --; Gregory the great and the early medieval papacy; The making of Carolingian kingship  --; Anglo-Irish culture and the colonial phenomenon --; The Carolingian enigma --; Monarch and papacy; Culture and society in the first Europe  --; The Carolingian world --; The feudal organization of society; Ecclesia and Mundus  --; The nature of the early medieval equilibrium --; The Norman feudal state --; The Ottonian empire --; The Cluniac ideal; Byzantium, Islam and the west  --; The limitations of Byzantine and Islamic civilizations --; The rise of Europe; Europe in 1050; The Gregorian world Revolution  --; The nature and origin of the Gregorian reform --; The debate on the essentials of a Christian society --; The German investiture controversy; The Anglo-Norman monarchy and the emergence of the bureaucratic state  --; The triumph of William the bastard --; The significance of the English investiture controversy; The first crusade and after  --; Origins of the crusading ideal --; Crusading memories; The intellectual expansion of Europe  --; The acceleration of cultural change --; The legal constituents of high medieval civilization --; A great generation: five leaders of twelfth-century thought and feeling --; Literature and society in the twelfth century; Moslem and Jewish thought:  the Aristotelian challenge  --; The problem of learning --; Reason and revelation in Moslem and Jewish thought; Varieties of religious experience  --; Monks and society --; The dimensions of popular heresy; The entrenchment of secular leadership  --; Power and charisma --; The Capetian ascendancy; The peace of Innocent III  --; The reaffirmation of papal leadership --; The Dominican and Franciscan ideals; The new consensus and its limitations  --; The cathedral of intellect --; The moral authority of the state --; The interests of society; The search for order  --; An old land --; The crisis of the late Middle Ages --; Papacy and clergy --; The European states; Late Medieval and Renaissance culture  --; The harvest of Medieval thought --; The Italian renaissance --; Medievalism and the Middle Ages; 2
N2  - General history of the Middle Ages focusing on medieval culture and religion
ER  -