EUROPE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798203603321
• Autore: HAY DENYS
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: LONDON, : ROUTLEDGE, 2016
• ISBN: 1-317-87191-X; 1-315-83678-5; 1-317-87190-1
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (411 p.)
• Collana: General History of Europe
• Disciplina: 940.192
• Soggetti: Civilization, Medieval; Europe History 476-1492
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; 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 contrastsPopulation 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 AgesThe 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, VeniceTuscany; 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; The rise of the central monarchies; A short-lived Bohemian-Hungarian empire (1301-1306); Restoration of the Polish monarchy (1305-1333); Angevin victory over oligarchs in Hungary (1308-1342); The establishment of the Romanian principalitiesTerritorial expansion and aristocratic rule under John of Bohemia (1310-1346); Consolidation of the Polish monarchy: Casimir the Great (1333-1370); Monarchy based on loyal magnates: Lewis the Great of Hungary (1342-1382); Golden decades of Bohemia under Emperor Charles IV (1346-1378); Baronial gains in the late fourteenth century; Origin and growth of noble power; Bohemia on the road to revolution; The Hussite revolution (1419-1436); The joint reign of Sigismund and his barons in Hungary (1387-1437); Emerging noble liberty in the Polish-Lithuanian union (1386-1444)