A Short History of the Middle Ages

530 Pages·2014·16.998 MB·English

by  Barbara H. Rosenwein

A Short History of the Middle Ages
A Short History of the Middle Ages
Barbara H. Rosenwein
Fourth Edition
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For Sophie
THE UNION of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in
the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions
of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces
of Europe and Africa.
Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
IT MAY very well happen that what seems for one group a period of decline
may seem to another the birth of a new advance.
Edward Hallett Carr, What is History?
Contents
List of Maps
List of Plates
List of Genealogies
List of Figures
Abbreviations, Date Conventions, Websites
Why the Middle Ages Matter Today
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER ONE: Prelude: The Roman World Transformed (c.300–c.600)
Part I: Three Cultures from One
CHAPTER TWO: The Emergence of Sibling Cultures (c.600–c.750)
CHAPTER THREE: Creating New Identities (c.750–c.900)
CHAPTER FOUR: Political Communities Reordered (c.900–c.1050)
Part II: The European Take-Off
CHAPTER FIVE: The Expansion of Europe (c.1050–c.1150)
CHAPTER SIX: Institutionalizing Aspirations (c.1150–c.1250)
CHAPTER SEVEN: Discordant Harmonies (c.1250–c.1350)
CHAPTER EIGHT: Catastrophe and Creativity (c.1350–c.1500)
Epilogue
Glossary
Appendix: Lists
Late Roman Emperors
Byzantine Emperors
Popes and Antipopes to 1500
Caliphs
Ottoman Emirs and Sultans
Sources
Index
Maps
The Medieval World Today
1.1: The Roman Empire in the Third Century
1.2: Christian Churches Founded before the Great Persecution of Diocletian
(303-304)
1.3: The Former Western Empire, c.500
1.4: Tours, c.600
1.5: Europe and the Eastern Roman Empire, c.600
2.1: The Byzantine Empire, c.700
2.2: The Islamic World to 750
2.3: Western Europe, c.750
3.1: The Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires, c.920
3.2: The Islamic World, c.800
3.3: Europe, c.814
3.4a: Partition of 843 (Treaty of Verdun)
3.4b: Partition of 870 (Treaty of Meerssen)
3.4c: Partition of 880
4.1: Constantinople, c.1100
4.2: The Byzantine Empire, c.1025
4.3: Kievan Rus’, c.1050
4.4: Fragmentation of the Islamic World, c.1000
4.5: Viking, Muslim, and Hungarian Invasions, Ninth and Tenth Centuries
4.6: Europe, c.1050
5.1: The Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk World, c.1090
5.2: Tours in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
5.3: Western Europe, c.1100
5.4: The Crusader States, c.1140
5.5: Spain at the Death of Alfonso VI (1109)
6.1: The Almohads before the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212)
6.2: Saladin’s Empire, c.1200
6.3: The Latin Empire and Byzantine Successor States, 1204–c.1250
6.4: The Angevin and Capetian Realms in the Late Twelfth Century
6.5: Italy in the Age of Frederick Barbarossa
6.6: German Settlement in the Baltic Sea Region, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries
7.1: The Mongol Empire, c.1260–1350
7.2: Mongol-European Trade Routes, c.1350
7.3: European Trade Routes, c.1300
7.4: Piacenza, Late Thirteenth Century
7.5: Western Europe, c.1300
7.6: East Central Europe, c.1300
7.7: The Village of Toury, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
7.8: The Lands of Toury, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
8.1: The Ottoman Empire, c.1500
8.2: The First Phase of the Hundred Years’ War, 1337–1360
8.3: English and Burgundian Hegemony in France, c.1430
8.4: The Duchy of Burgundy, 1363–1477
8.5: Western Europe, c.1450
8.6: Long-distance Sea Voyages of the Fifteenth Century