The Medieval World View - An Introduction

The Medieval World View, Third Edition, presents the presuppositions of medieval society in a systematic fashion by integrating brief, self-contained selections from primary texts and carefully captioned photographs into a narrative of the medieval world and its foundations.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Preface


• Introduction


• Time Line


• PART 1: FOUNDATIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES


• 1. The Bible


• 2. The Classical Heritage


• 3. Early Christianity


• 4. Saint Augustine


• PART 2: THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD


• 5. Byzantium


• 6. Islam


• 7. The West After the Collapse of Roman Authority


• PART 3: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES


• 8. Western Monasticism


• 9. The First Medieval Synthesis: The Carolingian World and Its Dissolution


• PART 4: THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES


• 10. Church, State, and Society


• 11. The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century


• 12. Francis of Assisi and the Mendicants


• PART 5: EPILOGUE


• 13. From Medieval to Renaissance


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

William R. Cook is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Ronald B. Herzman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Summary

The Medieval World View, Third Edition, presents the presuppositions of medieval society in a systematic fashion by integrating brief, self-contained selections from primary texts and carefully captioned photographs into a narrative of the medieval world and its foundations.

Product details

• Authors: William R. Cook, William R. ( Cook, William R. (Professor of History at State University of New York Cook, William R./ Herzman Cook, Ronald B. Herzman, Ronald B. ( Herzman, Ronald B. (Professor of English at State University of New York Herzman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.2011
• EAN: 9780195373684
• ISBN: 978-0-19-537368-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries