The New Cambridge Medieval History
The fourth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the eleventh and twelfth centuries, which comprised perhaps the most dynamic period in the European middle ages. This is a history of Europe, but the continent is interpreted widely to include the Near East and North Africa. The volume is divided into two parts of which this, the second, deals with the course of events - ecclesiastical and secular - and major developments in an age marked by the transformation of the position of the papacy in a process fuelled by a radical reformation of the church, the decline of the western and eastern empires, the rise of western kingdoms and Italian elites, and the development of governmental structures, the beginnings of the recovery of Spain from the Moors and the establishment of western settlements in the eastern Mediterranean region in the wake of the crusades.
- A further volume in the landmark and highly regarded New Cambridge Medieval series, complementary to (but separate from) Part 1 of Volume 4
- Includes the work of many of the world's leading authorities on eleventh- and twelfth-century Europe
- A standard and enduring work of reference on the political and ecclesiastical history of Europe during the period
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"It is unquestionably magisterial ... produced with truly extraordinary accuracy."
The Catholic Historical Review
"This time Cambridge has come as close as possible to realizing the ambitious and unachieved standards of the orignal series. Ten years in the making, and subject to all the disappointments, delays, contributor drop-outs, their replacements, and intimations and demonstrations of mortality that necessarily plague such projects, these volumes stand up well to the high demands of both contemporary scholarship and readership." - The International History Review Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania
Product details
May 2015Paperback
9781107460638
980 pages
229 × 152 × 49 mm
1.3kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction Jonathan Riley-Smith and David Luscombe
- 2. The papacy, 1024–1122 Uta-Renate Blumenthal
- 3. The western empire (including the French speaking imperial lands) under the Salians Hanna Vollrath
- 4. Italy in the eleventh century (a) Northern and central Italy Giovanni Tabacco (b) Southern Italy Graham Loud
- 5. The kingdom of the Franks to 1108 Constance Bouchard
- 6. Spain in the eleventh century Simon Barton
- 7. England and Normandy, 1042–1137 Marjorie Chibnall
- 8. The Byzantine empire, 1025–1118 Michael Angold
- 9. Russia, the Bulgars and the southern Slavs, 1024–c.1200 Martin Dimnik
- 10. Poland in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Jerzy Wyrozumski
- 11. Scandinavia in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Peter Sawyer
- 12. Hungary in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Nora Berend
- 13. The papacy, 1122–98 I. S. Robinson
- 14. The western empire, 1125–97 Benjamin Arnold
- 15. Italy in the twelfth century (a) Northern and central Italy Giovanni Tabacco (b) Norman Sicily Graham Loud
- 15. Spain in the twelfth century Peter Linehan
- 16. The kingdom of the Franks from Louis VI to Philip II (a) Crown and government John W. Baldwin (b) The seigneuries Michel Bur
- 17. England and the Angevin dominions, 1137–1204 Thomas K. Keefe
- 18. Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the twelfth century Geoffrey Barrow
- 19. The Byzantine empire, 1118–1204 Paul Magdalino
- 20. The Latin east, 1098–1204 Hans Mayer
- 21. Abbasids, Fatimids and Seljuqs Michael Brett
- 22. Zangids, Ayyubids and Seljuqs Stephen Humphreys.