The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 7, C.1415-c.1500Rosamond McKitterick This volume covers the last century (interpreted broadly) of the traditional western Middle Ages. Often seen as a time of doubt, decline and division, the period is shown here as a period of considerable innovation and development, much of which resulted from a conscious attempt by contemporaries to meet the growing demands of society and to find practical solutions to the social, religious and political problems which beset it. The volume consists of four sections. Part I focuses on both the ideas and other considerations which guided men as they sought good government, and on the practical development of representation. Part II deals with aspects of social and economic development at a time of change and expansion. Part III discusses the importance of the life of the spirit: religion, education and the arts. Moving from the general to the particular, Part IV concerns itself with the history of the countries of Europe, emphasis being placed on the growth of the nation states of the 'early modern' world. |
Contents
theory and practice | 3 |
Representation since the thirteenth century | 29 |
Popes and councils | 65 |
The European nobility | 89 |
Rural Europe | 106 |
Urban Europe | 121 |
Commerce and trade | 145 |
War | 161 |
Burgundy | 431 |
England | 457 |
The Celtic world | 496 |
14061513 | 514 |
c Wales | 532 |
Italy | 547 |
The Iberian peninsula | 588 |
b Castile and Navarre | 606 |
Exploration and discovery | 175 |
Religious belief and practice | 205 |
Schools and universities | 220 |
Humanism | 243 |
Manuscripts and books | 278 |
The beginning of printing | 287 |
Architecture and painting | 299 |
Music | 319 |
Germany and the Empire | 337 |
Hus the Hussites and Bohemia | 367 |
France | 392 |
b The recovery of France 14501520 | 408 |
c Portugal | 627 |
The Swiss Confederation | 645 |
The states of Scandinavia c 1390c 1536 | 671 |
crown and estates | 707 |
The kingdom of Poland and the grand duchy of Lithuania | 727 |
Russia | 748 |
The Latin east | 796 |
The Ottoman world | 812 |
Conclusion | 831 |
Primary sources and secondary works arranged by chapter | 848 |
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