Civilization of the Middle Ages

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Harper Collins, 3 jun 1994 - 624 pagina's
Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages contains more than 30 percent new material.
 

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ONE The Heritage of the Ancient World
1
Two The Foundations of the Middle Ages
29
THREE The Age of the Barbarian Invasions
89
FOUR Justinian and Mohammed
123
FIVE The Advance of Ecclesiastical Leadership
145
SIX The Making of Carolingian Kingship
161
SEVEN Culture and Society in the First Europe
185
EIGHT Ecclesia and Mundus
205
THIRTEEN The First Crusade and After
289
FOURTEEN The Intellectual Expansion of Europe
305
CONTENTS
345
MONKS AND SOCIETY
373
EIGHTEEN The Peace of Innocent III
417
NINETEEN The New Consensus and Its Limitations
435
TWENTY The Search for Order
475
TWENTYONE Late Medieval and Renaissance Culture
529

NINE Byzantium Islam and the West
225
TEN Europe in 1050
235
ELEVEN The Gregorian World Revolution
243
TWELVE The AngloNorman Monarchy and
277
THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
540
The Middle Ages on Film
567
Index
577
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Pagina 64 - Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven, and I say also unto thee that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Pagina 64 - That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shall bind on earth, shall be bound also in heaven, and whatsoever thou shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.
Pagina 176 - Ecclesiastes," published in the Oriental Studies of the Oriental Club of Philadelphia, declared, "There is no author to the book of Ecclesiastes, at any rate not of the book in the form in which it has come down to us. . . . It...
Pagina 555 - I have come to understand why man is the most fortunate of creatures and consequently worthy of all admiration and what precisely is that rank which is his lot in the universal chain of Being— a rank to be envied not only by brutes but even by the stars and by minds beyond this world. It is a matter past faith and a wondrous one. Why should it not be? For it is on this very account that man is rightly called and judged a great miracle and a wonderful creature indeed.
Pagina xv - This heavenly city, then, while it sojourns on earth, calls citizens out of all nations, and gathers together a society of pilgrims of all languages, not scrupling about diversities in the manners, laws, and institutions whereby earthly peace is secured and maintained, but recognising that, however various these are, they all tend to one and the same end of earthly peace.
Pagina 64 - He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am ? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona : for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Pagina 558 - ... conception of life and the world still dominated. The two poles of the mind continued to be chivalry and hierarchy. Profound pessimism spread a general gloom over life. The gothic principle prevailed in art. But all these forms and modes were on the wane. A high and strong culture is declining, but at the same time and in the same sphere new things are being born. The tide is turning, the tone of life is about to change.
Pagina 181 - Charles Augustus, crowned great and peace-giving emperor of the Romans, life and victory!" Charlemagne was so indignant and chagrined that, according to Einhard, "he said he would never have entered the church on that day, although it was a very important religious festival, if he had known the intention of the pope.
Pagina 4 - Eastern dynasties after the conquest of the Near East by Alexander the Great in the fourth century...

Over de auteur (1994)

Norman F. Cantor was Emeritus Professor of History, Sociology, and Comparative Literature at New York University. His many books include In the Wake of the Plague, Inventing the Middle Ages, and The Civilization of the Middle Ages, the most widely read narrative of the Middle Ages in the English language. He died in 2004.

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