Europe - World of Middle Ages

Description

Part one. Europe and the ancient world -- A map of the medieval environment: The geography and climate of mideterranean and north temperate Europe -- The first Europeans -- The transformations of the Eurasian world, 200-400 AD -- The fourth century -- Part two. The legacy of the Mediterranean antiquity -- East and West Rome and the invasions, 395-530 -- The barbarian West -- The making of Byzantium -- Germanin kingdoms and the Church in the West, 565-700 -- The new Mediterranean world: The rise of Islam -- Part three. The book and the sword, 650-950 -- The wold of Bede and Boniface, 650-750 -- From Frankish kingdom to Christian empire -- Politics, society, and economy in ninth-century Europe -- Byzantium and the crisis of the West, 802-950 -- Part four. Christendom: Material civilization and culture, 950-1150 -- Power and society -- Spiritual reform and the concept of Christendom -- Christendom East and West, 1025-1150 -- Part five. Christendom: Authority and enterprise, 1150-1300 -- The materials of a new learning -- The content of the new learning -- The Church and the World, 1098-1250 -- The road to the world -- Temporal authority: From territorial principality to territorial monarchy -- Latin Christendom and beyond -- Part six. The human condition -- The individual and society in the thirteenth century -- The world of Dante -- Material civilization in crisis: The fourteenth century -- The roots of traditional Europe.