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The Penguin history of medieval Europe / Maurice Keen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Penguin 1991Description: 349 p. : maps 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780140136302
  • 9780140136302
Other title:
  • History of medieval Europe
Uniform titles:
  • History of medieval Europe
Subject(s): Summary: A picture of the politics, society and religion of medieval Europe, the age that had as its theme the unity of Christendom. Maurice Keen examines tribal wars, the Crusades, the growth of trade and the shifting patterns of community life as villages grew into towns and towns into sizeable cities. He explores how Papal victories, by blurring the distinction between temporal and spiritual matters, eventually undermined the spiritual authority of the Church. And he discusses how the Hundred Years War escalated from a feudal dispute into a full-scale national conflict, until, by the mid-fifteenth century, changing economic and social conditions had transformed the unity of Christendom into merely a pious phrase.
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Originally published: as A history of medieval Europe. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A picture of the politics, society and religion of medieval Europe, the age that had as its theme the unity of Christendom. Maurice Keen examines tribal wars, the Crusades, the growth of trade and the shifting patterns of community life as villages grew into towns and towns into sizeable cities. He explores how Papal victories, by blurring the distinction between temporal and spiritual matters, eventually undermined the spiritual authority of the Church. And he discusses how the Hundred Years War escalated from a feudal dispute into a full-scale national conflict, until, by the mid-fifteenth century, changing economic and social conditions had transformed the unity of Christendom into merely a pious phrase.

Originally published: A history of medieval Europe. London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968.

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