The Cambridge illustrated history of the Middle Ages
Robert Fossier
Volume I: 350-950 Spans the beginning of Middle Ages, a period marked not only by change, plague and civil strife but also rise church, growing importance Byzantium flowering Carolingian Renaissance. Hardback 0 521 26644 1989 246 x 189mm 579pp. many half-tones 20 line diagrams II: 950-1250 Begins at turn millennium covers extraordinary rebirth Europe, in terms demographic expansion, agrarian settlement organisation, establishment towns villages, ascendancy feudal system, appearance formal states kingdoms, dramatic controlling western Church. 26645 9 1997 575pp. 32 colour plates 16 maps 3 figures III: 1250-1520 Covers close an era crisis, plague, famine strife, yet also, towards its end, vigorous economic colonial intellectual renewal religious reformation. 26646 7 1986 554pp. half tones
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