Medieval Europe,

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Author / Creator:Brown, Sydney M. (Sydney MacGillvary), 1895-1952.
Imprint:New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co. [©1932]
Description:x pages, 2 leaves, [3]-544 pages including maps, genealogical tables 22 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1895250
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Notes:"Suggested readings" at end of most of the chapters and index.
Other form:Online version: Brown, Sydney M. (Sydney MacGillvary), 1895-1952. Medieval Europe. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co. [©1932]
Table of Contents:
  • The Roman Empire
  • The triumph of the cross
  • The Barbarian infiltration
  • Gaul under the Merovingians
  • The beginnings of monasticism
  • Justinian
  • Mahomet and the expansion of the Arabs
  • The rise of the papacy
  • The Franks and Charlemagne
  • The Carolingian decline
  • The Saxon empire
  • The Salian emperors and church reform
  • Sword and crozier
  • The empire in decay
  • The end of the Hohenstaufens
  • The growth of the French monarchy
  • The Crusades
  • The new monasticism
  • Towns and trade
  • Feudal society
  • The intellectual life
  • The age of faith
  • The fall of the House of Capet
  • Norman and Angevin England
  • The Hundred Years' War
  • The triumph of the French monarchy
  • Storm and stress
  • The twilight of Italy
  • Germany in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
  • Genealogical tables. The House of Charlemagne
  • The House of Capet
  • The Saxon and Salian emperors
  • Welf and Hohenstaufen
  • The Normans in Sicily
  • The "first" and "second" Houses of Anjou
  • The Houses of Luxemburg and Habsburg
  • The Houses of Valois and Anjou
  • The rivals for Milan.