Originally published in 1937 and as a third edition in 1951, this volume discusses the development of Europe and its component states by focussing on events and institutions such as the monarchy, religious wars, the development of agriculture, feudalism, legal systems, chivalry and warfare, education and the arts and literature of the Middle Ages.
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Preface
- Contents
- Maps
- I Europe and Its Peoples in A.D. 1200
- II Innocent III and the Papacy at the Height of Its Power
- III The Emperor Frederick II
- IV The Papacy and Italy, 1250—c. 1800
- V France, 1198–1270
- VI The Empire of the East and the Crusades, 1198–1291
- VII Germany in Anarchy, 1250–1313
- VIII The Outskirts of Europe in the Thirteenth Century
- IX Townsmen and Peasants, 1200–1882
- X Intellectual Life, Literature, and Art
- XI The Defeat of the Papacy by France
- XII The Decline of the Papacy and the Church
- XIII The Apogee of the French Monarchy
- XIV The Decline of France in the Hundred Years' War
- XV The Dynastic Rivalries in Germany: Switzerland
- XVI Italy, 1290–1880
- XVII The Iberian Peninsula in the Fourteenth Century
- XVIII North and East Europe in the Fourteenth Century
- XIX The Balkans and the Turkish Advance, 1282–1380
- XX Chivalry, Warfare, and Daily Life
- Genealogical Tables
- Index
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