Michael
Jones, ed.
The New Cambridge Medieval History VI: c.1300-c.1415.
Cambridge University
Press, 2000.
xxx,1110pp.
Hardback, ISBN
0521362903.
Publisher's
recommended price £80.00
The
sixth volume
of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the fourteenth
century,
a period dominated by plague, other natural disasters and war which
brought
to an end three centuries of economic growth and cultural expansion in
Christian Europe, but one which also saw important developments in
government,
changes of emphasis and concern in religious and intellectual life,
giving
greater weight to the voice of the laity, and new cultural and artistic
patterns, not least with the rise of vernacular literature.
The
volume is
divided into four sections. Part 1 sets the scene by discussion of
general
themes in the theory and practice of government, religion, social and
economic
history and culture, including discussions of art, architecture and
chivalry.
Part II deals with the individual histories of the states of western
Europe;
part III with the Church at the time of the Avignon papacy and the
Great
Schism; and part IV with eastern and northern Europe, Byzantium and the
early Ottomans, giving particular attention to the social and economic
relations with westerners and those of other civilisations in the
Mediterranean.
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