TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wickham,Chris
TI  - Medieval Europe
SN  - 9780300208344
U1  - 940.1 WIC 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Social change
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / General
KW  - HISTORY / Social History
KW  - 476-1492
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - To 1492
N1  - Gratis; Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-315) and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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