Includes short sections events and conditions around the world from the time of Constantinople to Columbus's voyage to America in 1492.
The holy and the faithful -- The sinful and the spectral -- Daily life and its fictions -- Death and its aftermath
The site divides the famous tapestry into This online tutorial is for those engaged www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html thirty - five separately viewable parts and in Renaissance , Reformation , and early includes an account of how the ...
This book offers a major reassessment of the high medieval period. It will be essential reading for medievalists and those interested in the history of language and customs. ..
In this single indispensable volume, one of America's ranking scholars combines a life's work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration.
The Middle Ages (c.500-1500) includes a thousand years of European history. In this Very Short Introduction Miri Rubin tells the story of the times through the people and their lifestyles.
Johannes Fried gives us a Middle Ages full of people encountering the unfamiliar, grappling with new ideas, redefining power, and interacting with different societies—an era characterized by continuities and discontinuities, the vibrant ...
Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a “middle” period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated.
The story moves on to the redrawn map of Europe, in which power players like Byzantium and the newly-established Frankish kingdom begin a precarious existence in a "sea of tribes" (in the words of a contemporary).
Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new material.
Think again! While all these are part of the tapestry of the medieval era, the threads of politics, personality and war, culture, religion, education and the arts are vastly more intricate and fascinating.