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The Age of Chivalry - The Story of Medieval Europe, 950 to 1450 (Hardcover)
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The Age of Chivalry - The Story of Medieval Europe, 950 to 1450 (Hardcover)
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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. Ottonians and Salians; Rise of
the Capetians; Normans in England; Birth of the city-states; The
Normans in Sicily; The First Crusade; The Investiture contest; The
Hohenstaufen; The Angevin Empire; 12th-century Renaissance; Triumph
of the Capetians; The Third Crusade; The Albigensian Crusade; The
glory of Islamic Spain; The Kingdom of Naples; The Hundred Years
War I; The Hundred Years War II; Avignon and the Schism; The Golden
Age of Florence; The Reconquista; Popes, Saints and Heretics;
Medieval society; Medieval culture; Medieval warfare.
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