EUROPE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971536103321
• 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; 940.17
• 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)
• Sommario/riassunto: The second edition of this highly successful textbook analyses the structure of later medieval society in Europe, identifies its main groups and their political programmes, and examines their impact on the political, economic and social history of the major European states. There are many additions and expansions in this new edition, and the important chapter on the Central Monarchies (of Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Rumania and Lithuania) has been newly contributed by Professor J M Bak of the University of British Columbia.