Description
Book SynopsisAn introduction to a key period in the history of Europe - the transition from medieval to Renaissance Europe. In this updated edition, Professor Holmes reveals the interactions between politics, society and ideas that contributed to the problems and changes of this period.
Table of ContentsIntroduction.
Part I: The Politics of Western Europe in the Fourteenth Century:.
1. The Netherlands.
2. The Kingdom of France.
3. The Hundred Years War: The First Phase to 1385.
4. Germany and the Empire to 1378.
5. Iberia.
Part II: Italy, the Papacy and Europe:.
6. Italian Commerce.
7. The City-State.
8. The Avignon Papacy.
9. Italian Papacy.
10. Italian Politics to 1378.
Part III: Economic and Social Forces:.
11. Population.
12. Landlords.
13. The Industrial and Commercial World.
14. The Social Rebellions of the Fourteenth Century.
Part IV: The Fourteenth-Century World of Ideas:.
15. Universities and Courts.
16. The Beginnings of Renaissance Ideas.
17. Religious Movements.
Part V: The Crisis of the Papacy and the Church:.
18. The Great Schism.
19. The Age of the Councils.
20. The First Reformation: The Hussite Movement.
Part VI: Europe and the World Beyond:.
21. Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire.
22. The Beginnings of European Expansion.
Part VII: The Fifteenth-Century Crises of the Monarchies:.
23. France: The End of the Hundred Years War.
24. Castile and Aragon.
25. Germany and the Empire.
Part VIII: Princes and Towns in the Netherlands and Italy:.
26. Valois Burgundy.
27. Italian Politics.
28. The Ideas of the Italian Renaissance.
Epilogue.
Bibliography.
Index.
