Medieval Europe: A Short History - Softcover

Hollister, C. Warren; Bennett, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071121099 ISBN 13: 9780071121095

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 2001

Synopsis

For more than three decades, C. Warren Hollister nurtured this classic text of "Medieval European History". The text was profoundly marked by his clear historical vision and engaging teaching style. Now, Judith Bennett has updated this classic book, while striving to lose neither Dr. Hollister's vision nor style. In his preface to the eighth edition, Professor Hollister wrote of his fateful realization, while in college, that our world today "is a product of the medieval past." The ninth edition of "Medieval Europe: A Short History" seeks to introduce today's students to the medieval roots of our own society. Building on the solid foundation created by Dr. Hollister, new co-author Judith Bennett brings expanded coverage of women's history, social and cultural history, the role of the common man and woman of the Middle Ages, and the history of the Late Middle Ages to this revision.

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From the Publisher:

NEW! More balanced coverage throughout the text due to the additional coverage of women's history, social and cultural history, and the history of the Late Middle Ages.
NEW! This edition's Chapter 7, now titled Division, Invasion, and Reorganization, combines coverage of chapters Seven and Eight of the previous edition.
NEW! A much-expanded Chapter 11 including a discussion of political theory andincreased coverage of intellectual trends.
NEW! A reorganization of the presentation of the Investiture Controversy.
NEW! Chapter 14, Famine Plague, and Recovery, was added to fill out coverage of the Later Middle Ages.
NEW! Glossary included which helps students with new or challenging terminology. Terms found in the glossary are introduced in boldface in the text.
NEW! More dates are noted than before. As each monarch, pope, or ruler is introduced, the dates of rulership are given. The lifespan dates are provided for many other important figures discussed in the text.
NEW! More that twenty timelines were created to replace the chronological charts found in previous editions.
NEW! Bibliographies have been placed at the end of each chapter.
NEW! Biographical sketches, a wonderful innovation of recent editions of Medieval Europe: A Short History, have been expanded so that each chapter contains one.
NEW! Citations have been provided for quotations new to this edition.
NEW! Coverage of Byzantium and Islam is still largely confined to Chapters 3 and 5, but is now extended to 1500.

About the Author:

C. Warren Hollister was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received his BA from Harvard University and his MA and PhD from UCLA. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, the Royal Historical Society (London), the Medieval Academy of Ireland, the Australian National University, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and Merton College, Oxford, he was founder and past president of the Charles Homer Haskins Society and served as President of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, the Medieval Association of the Pacific, the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, the North American Conference on British Studies, and was 1984 Centennial Program Chair of the American Historical Association, Chair of the University of California Press Editorial Board, and Chair of the national Development Committee for the College Board Advanced Placement Test in European History. Professor Hollister's many books have run through more than thirty editions and have been translated into several languages. He has also written some fifty articles on medieval history. Professor Hollister has served on numerous editorial boards, including Albion, the American Historical Review, the Journal of British Studies, and the Journal of Mediaeval History. Among Professor Hollister's other honors were the Centennial Lectureship of the University of Georgia, the 1987 Denis Bethell Memorial Lectureship of the Medieval Academy of Ireland (Dublin), the 1988 Wilkinson Memorial Lectureship of the University of Toronto, the 1990 Lansdowne Lectureship of the University of Victoria, the 1996 Wei Lun Visiting Professorship of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Triennial Book Prize of the Conference on British Studies, the E. Harris Harbison National Award for Distinguished Teaching (Princeton University), and the UC Santa Barbara Faculty Teaching Prize. Judith M. Bennett teaches medieval history and women's history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is Martha Nell Hardy Distinguished Professor. Educated at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Toronto, and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, she is the author of numerous books and articles about peasants, women, and families in the Middle Ages. Professor Bennett's research has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and numerous other agencies. She has held lectureships in Australia and England, as well as the United States. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London, she has held offices in such professional organizations as the Medieval Academy of America, the North American Conference on British Studies, the Coordinating Council for Women in History, and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Professor Bennett has received several awards for her scholarly books and articles, and she is also an acclaimed teacher at UNC-CH, where she has won a top teaching award and is now a fellow of the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0071121099
• ISBN 13: 9780071121095
• Binding: Paperback