This book provides a radical reassessment of Europe from the late
tenth to the early thirteenth centuries. Professor Moore argues
that the period witnessed the first true revolution in European
society, characterized by a transformation in the economy, in
family structures, and in the sources of power and the means by
which it was exercised. Together these changes brought into being
for the first time an autonomous city-supporting civilization in
non-Mediterranean Europe. The circumstances and outcome of this
transformation, he demonstrates, not only shaped medieval and
modern Europe but established enduring and fundamental
characteristics which differentiated Europe from other world
civilizations.
The process at the heart of change involved social, cultural and
institutional transformations whose implementation required
extensive popular participation. On occasion it required the use or
threat of popular violence, in part consciously sanctioned and led
by some of those challenging for power within the social elite;
once the revolution had been achieved this popular enthusiasm had
to be subdued and contained. These developments were far from
simple and anything but uniform. The differences which resulted
both within Europe and between Europe and other world civilizations
were of lasting significance.
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