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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Strayer, Joseph R. (Joseph Reese), 1904-1987. Western Europe in the Middle Ages. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1955] (OCoLC)568677422 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph R Strayer |
| OCLC Number: | 258847 |
| Description: | 245 p. : illus. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The making of Europe -- The Roman Empire -- The Church -- The Germanic migrations -- The end of Mediterranean unity -- The work of Charlemagne -- The years of transition -- The collapse of the Carolingian empire -- Feudalism -- The revival of the Empire -- Germany and Italy -- The renewal of Western civilization -- The flowering of Medieval civilization -- The temper of the twelfth century -- The commonwealth of Christendom -- The development of secular governments -- New ideas and their expression in the twelfth century -- The Medieval summer -- The temper of the thirteenth century -- The papal monarchy -- Innocent III -- The papal monarchy -- the popes and the Hohenstaufen -- The rise of the secular state -- Economic, intellectual, and artistic achievements in the thirteenth century -- The long Autumn -- The changing climate of opinion -- The first frosts -- The failure of the secular states -- Lost in the fog -- Premature spring in Italy -- Fire under the Northern ashes. |
| Responsibility: | Joseph R. Strayer. |
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