A history of medieval Europe : from Constantine to Saint Louis

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A history of medieval Europe : from Constantine to Saint Louis

R.H.C. Davis

Longman, 1988

2nd ed

  • : pbk

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This is the second edition of a standard student introduction to the period. It retains the essential shape and character of the first, and is split into two parts: the first spanning the Dark Ages, the second the High Middle Ages.

Table of Contents

List of plates. List of maps. List of figures. Acknowledgements Abbreviations. Preface. Part one. The dark Ages. Introduction. 1. Constantine the Great: The New Rome and Christianity. Further reading. 2. The barbarian invasions Further reading. 3. Three reactions to the barbian invasions. 4. The Church and the Papacy. 5. Islam. 6. The Franks. 7. The Break-up of the Carolingian Empire. 8. Europe at the end of the ninth century: economic survey. Part Two The High Middle Ages (900-1250) Introduction. 1. The Saxon Empire. 2. The Reform of the Papcy. 3. Monasticism in the 11th and 12th centuries. 4. Jerusalem regained and lost: the first three Crusades. 5. Feudal monachy and the French Kingdom (1066-1223) 6.The Emperor Frederrick I Barbarossa (1152-1190) 7. The Crisis of the Church. 8. The new era in monachy. 9. Europe in the middle of the 13th century: an economic survey. Epilogue: the Mogals. Index

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