The New Cambridge medieval history. Vol. VI, c.1300-c.1415 / edited by Michael Jones

Jones, Michael

ISBN 10: 0521362903 / ISBN 13: 9780521362900

Published by Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; (xxx, 1110 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. Contents; Introduction / Michael Jones -- The theory and practice of government in western Europe in the fourteenth century / Albert Rigaudière -- Currents of religious thought and expression / Jeremy Catto -- The universities / Jacques Verger -- Rural society / Paul Freedman -- Urban life / Jean-Pierre Leguay -- Plague and family life / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- Trade in fourteenth-century Europe / Peter Spufford -- Chivalry and the aristocracy / Maurice Keen -- Court patronage and international Gothic / Paul Binski -- Architecture / Paul Crossley -- Literature in Italian, French and English : uses and muses of the vernacular / Nick Havely. The British Isles. England : Edward II and Edward III / W. Mark Ormrod ; The reign of Richard II / Caroline M. Barron ; Wales / A.D. Carr ; Fourteenth-century Scotland / Alexander Grant ; Ireland / Robin Frame -- France. The last Capetians and early Valois kings, 1314-1364 / Michael Jones ; France under Charles V and Charles VI / Françoise Autrand -- Italy in the age of Dante and Petrarch. The Italian north / John Law ; Florence and the republican tradition / Louis Green ; The Italian south / David Abulafia -- The empire. From Adolf of Nassau to Lewis of Bavaria, 1292-1147 / Peter Herde ; The Luxemburgs and Rupert of the Palatinate, 1347-1410 / Ivan Hlavácek -- The Low Countries, 1290-1415 / Walter Prevenier -- Iberian Peninsula. The crown of Aragon / Alan Forey ; Castile, Navarre and Portugal / Peter Linehan -- The Avignon papacy / P.N.R. Zutshi -- The Great Schism / Howard Kaminsky. Baltic Europe / S.C. Rowell -- The kingdoms of central Europe in the fourteenth century / Claude Michaud -- The principalities of Rus' in the fourteenth century / Nancy Shields Kollmann -- The Byzantine empire in the fourteenth century / Angeliki E. Laiou -- Latins in the Aegean and the Balkans in the fourteenth century / Michel Balard -- The rise of the Ottomans / I. Metin Kunt -- Christians and Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean / Peter Edbury. Subjects; 476-1492. Civilization, Medieval. Middle Ages. Middle Ages History. Medieval Period. Europe History 14th century. Europe Church history 600-1500. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 427216

Bibliographic Details

Title: The New Cambridge medieval history. Vol. VI,...

Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st edition.

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Synopsis:

The sixth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the fourteenth century, a period dominated by plague, other natural disasters and war which brought to an end three centuries of economic growth and cultural expansion in Christian Europe, but one which also saw important developments in government, religious and intellectual life, and new cultural and artistic patterns. Part I sets the scene by discussion of general themes in the theory and practice of government, religion, social and economic history, and culture. Part II deals with the individual histories of the states of western Europe; Part III with that of the Church at the time of the Avignon papacy and the Great Schism; and Part IV with eastern and northern Europe, Byzantium and the early Ottomans, giving particular attention to the social and economic relations with westerners and those of other civilisations in the Mediterranean.

Review:

'What is the volume's strength? It is in the meticulous work of mediation that it performs, between a vast literature in European languages to which most readers, and most historians, no longer have access ... for those of us who teach European history ... the service is enormous.' Miri Rubin, The Times Higher Education Supplement

'Michael Jones and his colleagues deserve congratulation on a triumphant conclusion to their long labours in making fourteenth-century Europe seem even more absorbing than it always and already was.' The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

'... the Press deserves congratulations for allowing such a profusion of references. In all, this is a most welcome book: hugely informative and thought-provoking, it captures many aspects of a remarkable century.' Medium Aevum