[General History of Europe 01] • Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries by Hay, Denys -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Contents List of Genealogical Tables and Maps Preface Acknowledgements 1 - The Sources

Narrative sources Public records and private papers Involuntary evidence

2 - Europe at the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century

The economic geography of Europe at the beginning of the fourteenth century The peoples of Europe in the later Middle Ages The political scene

3 - Society and its Structure: 1. The Peasants: Population Trends

The eve of the fourteenth century The economic crisis of the fourteenth century The peasants' revolts Recovery and change East-west contrasts Population trends in the later Middle Ages

4 - Society and its Structure: 2. Clergy, Nobility, Townsmen

The clergy The secular clergy The regular clergy The military orders The nobility and gentry The higher nobility Lesser nobility and gentry Chivalry and war Townsmen Slavery in Mediterranean towns The size of towns

5 - The Theory and Practice of Government

Political speculation The place of the king Conciliar thought Kings and administration in western Europe: France and England Local government Royal administration in other parts of western Europe Innovations of the later Middle Ages The apanage War and finance in France Law and representation in France England: taxation and parliament Scotland Spain Councils and administration Government in urban areas German towns: the Hanseatic League The Swiss

6 - Political Development in Western Europe

England in the fourteenth century England in the fifteenth century Scotland France in the fourteenth century France after the Treaty of Arras Spain in the later Middle Ages The Hundred Years War Crown and subject at the end of the fifteenth century

7 - Italians and Italy

North Italy: Milan, Genoa, Venice Tuscany The states of the Church and Rome Naples and Sicily Italian ideals and realities

8 - Germany and her Northern Neighbours

The Empire: institutions and rulers Princes, nobles, knights and towns: the Estates in Germany The shrinking perimeter of Germany in the later Middle Ages The kingdoms of Scandinavia

9 - East-Central Europe

10 - Eastern Europe

Byzantium in the later Middle Ages Byzantine civilization The advance of the Ottoman Turks The west and the Crusade The inheritor of Byzantium: Russia

11 - The Papal Monarchy: The Church as a State

The clergy and the pope The curia at Avignon The college of cardinals The Great Schism The councils of Constance, Basle, and Ferrara-Florence-Rome The re-established papacy Christendom after the councils

12 - The Bonds of Religion

The quality of Latin Christianity Reform and the clergy Mysticism and the laity Orthodox reform Heresy Repression of heresy: The Inquisition Religious regionalism

13 - The Bonds of Education, Literature and Art

Education during the later Middle Ages Traditional scholarship The rise of vernacular literature The Italian Renaissance North-south cultural contacts in the later Middle Ages

14 - The Bonds of Trade

Communications and trade Local trade and local fairs Metropolitan and intercontinental trade The commodities of long-distance trade Commercial techniques Industrial activity Trends in European commerce in the later Middle Ages The bonds of trade

15 - The Future: Europe and the World Bibliography Genealogical Tables

1 - The English royal family 2 - The Valois kings of France 3 - The rulers of Portugal, Castile, Aragon and Navarre 4 - The rulers of Poland, Hungary and Bohemia 5 - The Angevins in Naples and the Balkans 6 - Visconti and Sforza rulers of Milan 7 - The principal members of the Medici family 8 - Rulers of the Scandinavian kingdoms 9 - German emperors and kings of the Romans 10 - The Popes 11 - The Palaeologi emperors 12 - Ottoman rulers

Maps

1 - Europe: physical and languages 2 - Britain and France in the fifteenth century 3 - Burgundy and Switzerland 4 - Spain and the west Mediterranean 5 - Italy 6 - Germany and Scandinavia 7 - Central and east Europe

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