Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xii, 147 pages; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Studies in social discontinuity

Uniform title

1. Studies in social discontinuity.

Subject

1. Europa
2. 500-1500
3. Geschichte 1000-1800
4. Sozialgeschichte 1000-1800
5. Social history > Medieval, 500-1500
6. Civilization
7. Social conditions
8. Social history > Medieval
9. Cultuurgeschiedenis
10. Sociale geschiedenis
11. Europe > Civilization
12. Europe > Social conditions
13. Europe
14. Europe > Social conditions > To 1492
15. Europe > Social conditions > 1492-1789

Contents

1. Methodological prolegomena -- Prologue: the age of the monasteries and early feudalism -- Delimitation of the period -- Devices that led toward mastery of the material conditions of life -- Agriculture and settlement -- Feudalism -- Kingship -- The church -- Diversity and unity -- The crystallization of old Europe: the formative period -- Material conditions -- The peace movement and the movement for monastic reform -- The reform papacy -- Artistic and intellectual development -- The cities -- The countryside -- Knighthood -- The meaning of estates -- Progress and limitations of kingship and emerging nations -- Diversity and unity -- Change and continuity within old Europe -- The conditions of life -- The effects of inventions -- The economy and its impact on society -- The tensions of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- The Renaissance -- The dynastic state -- The Reformation and the religious wars -- Incipient emancipation amidst the persistence of the old order -- The scientific revolution and the shaping of the Enlightenment -- The economy -- The state -- Weakening and persistence of the corporate order -- Epilogue: looking beyond.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.