Later Middle Ages

This edited volume brings together experts on the later middle ages to chart the principle developments of medieval Europe.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: John Watts: Principalities, Powers, and Political Life


• 2: Stephan R. Epstein (Christopher Dyer): The Economy


• 3: Robert Swanson: The Church and Religious Life


• 4: Alexander Lee: Culture and the Arts


• 5: Matthew Kempshall: Space, Time, and the World


• 6: Catherine Kovesi: Society, Family, and Gender


• 7: Catherine Holmes: Global Middle Ages: The East


• Conclusion: Into the Sixteenth Century

About the author

Isabella Lazzarini (Mantova, 1964), studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and qualified as Professor of Medieval History in 2013; she teaches at the University of Molise. Her research interests focus on the political, social, and cultural history of late medieval Italy, with an emphasis on Renaissance diplomacy and the growth of different political languages in documentary sources. She has been a Leverhulme Trust visiting professor (Jan.-June 2011) and a Marie Curie COFUND senior research fellow at the University of Durham (Jan.-March 2012); a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (Sept.-Dec. 2012) and a professeur invité at the Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris (Feb. 2014) and at the Sorbonne (Chaire Dupront, Feb. 2020).

Summary

This edited volume brings together experts on the later middle ages to chart the principle developments of medieval Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Isabella (Professor of Medieval History Lazzarini
• Assisted by: Isabella Lazzarini (Editor), Lazzarini Isabella (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2021
• EAN: 9780198731634
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873163-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Short Oxford History of Europe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; European History, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance