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Author / Creator:	Wickham, Chris, 1950- author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Middle Ages. Social change -- Europe -- History -- To 1500. Middle Ages. Social change. Social conditions. Europe -- History -- 476-1492. Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492. Europe. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12016960

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ISBN:	9780300222210 0300222211 0300208340 9780300208344 9780300208344 0300208340
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. Print version record.
Summary:	"The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period--one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne's reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, and political circumstances affected individual lives and international events. Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe's medieval period and a provocative revision of exactly how and why the Middle Ages matter"--
Other form:	Print version: Wickham, Chris, 1950- Medieval Europe. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016 9780300208344 0300208340
Standard no.:	9780300208344 10.12987/9780300222210

Table of Contents:

A new look at the Middle Ages
Rome and its Western successors, 500-750
Crisis and transformation in the East, 500-850/1000
The Carolingian experiment, 750-1000
The expansion of Christian Europe, 500-1100
Reshaping Western Europe, 1000-1150
The long economic boom, 950-1300
The ambiguities of political reconstruction, 1150-1300
1204 : the failure of alternatives
Defining society : gender and community in late medieval Europe
Money, war and death, 1350-1500
Rethinking politics, 1350-1500.