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The sixth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the fourteenthcentury,aperioddominatedbyplague,othernaturaldis- astersandwarwhichbroughttoanendthreecenturiesof economic growthandculturalexpansioninChristianEurope,butonewhichalso saw important developments in government, changes of emphasis andconcerninreligiousandintellectuallife,givinggreaterweightto thevoiceof thelaity,andnewculturalandartisticpatterns,notleast withtheriseof vernacularliterature. Thevolumeisdividedintofoursections.PartIsetsthescenebydis- cussionof generalthemesinthetheoryandpracticeof government, religion, social and economic history, and culture, including discus- sionsof art,architectureandchivalry.PartIIdealswiththeindividual historiesof thestatesof westernEurope;partIIIwiththeChurchat thetimeof theAvignonpapacyandtheGreatSchism;andpartIV witheasternandnorthernEurope,ByzantiumandtheearlyOttomans, givingparticularattentiontothesocialandeconomicrelationswith westernersandthoseof othercivilisationsintheMediterranean. Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 TheNewCambridgeMedievalHistory   DavidAbulafia RosamondMcKitterick MartinBrett EdwardPowell SimonKeynes JonathanShepard PeterLinehan PeterSpufford    Volume c. –c. Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 St Louis of Toulouse crowning Robert of Anjou,by Simone Martini (c.1284‒1344), Naples,Museo nazionale di Capodimonte Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 THE NEW CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY   Volume c. –c. VI   MICHAEL JONES ProfessorofMedievalFrenchHistory UniversityofNottingham Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008  Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa~oPaulo CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridge,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ ©CambridgeUniversityPress Thisbookisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 CONTENTS Listof plates pagexi Listof figures xiv Listof maps xv Listof genealogicaltables xvi Listof contributors xvii Preface xix Acknowledgements xxii Listof abbreviations xxiii      Introduction     Thetheoryandpracticeof governmentinwesternEurope inthefourteenthcentury     Currentsof religiousthoughtandexpression     Theuniversities 66    Ruralsociety     Urbanlife  -   Plagueandfamilylife   - vii Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 viii Contents  Tradeinfourteenth-centuryEurope     Chivalryandthearistocracy     CourtpatronageandinternationalGothic     Architecture     LiteratureinItalian,FrenchandEnglish:usesandmusesof the vernacular            TheBritishIsles (a) England:EdwardIIandEdwardIII  .   (b) Thereignof RichardII   .  (c) Wales  ..  (d) Fourteenth-centuryScotland    (e) Ireland     France (a) ThelastCapetiansandearlyValoiskings,–    (b) FranceunderCharlesVandCharlesVI     Italyintheageof DanteandPetrarch (a) TheItaliannorth    (b) Florenceandtherepublicantradition    (c) TheItaliansouth    Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Contents ix  Theempire (a) FromAdolf of NassautoLewisof Bavaria,–    (b) TheLuxemburgsandRupertof thePalatinate,–     TheLowCountries,–     TheIberianPeninsula (a) TheCrownof Aragon    (b) Castile,NavarreandPortugal           TheAvignonpapacy  ...   TheGreatSchism           BalticEurope  ..   Thekingdomsof centralEuropeinthefourteenthcentury     Theprincipalitiesof Rus(cid:1)inthefourteenthcentury      TheByzantineempireinthefourteenthcentury   .   LatinsintheAegeanandtheBalkansinthefourteenthcentury     Theriseof theOttomans  .   Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 x Contents  ChristiansandMuslimsintheeasternMediterranean    Appendix:genealogicaltables  Primarysourcesandsecondaryworksarrangedbychapter  Index  Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008