The five hundred years that separate the mid-tenth century from the mid-15th century constitute a critical and formative period in the history of Europe.This was the age of the system of legal and military obligation known as 'feudalism', and of the birth and consolidation of powerful kingdoms in England, France and Spain, it was an era of urbanization and the expansion of trade, of the building of the great Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals, of courtly romance and the art of the troubadour, and of the founding of celebrated seats of learning in Paris, Oxford and Bologna. But it was also an epoch characterised by brutal military adventure in the launching of armed pilgrimages to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim control, of the brutal dynastic conflict of the Hundred Years' War and of the devastating pandemic of the Black Death.In a sequence of scholarly but accessible articles – accompanied by an array of beautiful and authentic images of the era, plus timelines, maps, boxed features and display quotes – distinguished historian Hywel Williams sheds revelatory light on every aspect of a rich and complex period of European history.
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Hywel Williams is a historian, journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of the famous political expose Guilty Men, Cassell's Chronology of World History, Days that Changed the World and Sun Kings.
Titel
Age of Chivalry
Untertitel
The Story of Medieval Europe, 950 to 1450
Autor
EAN
9781849165778
ISBN
978-1-84916-577-8
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
24.11.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
14.35 MB
Anzahl Seiten
224
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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