Europe 800–1100: The Formation of a New Society (original) (raw)

History 245: The Making of Europe, 1450-1750

2024

This course explores the transformation of Europe from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries in order to understand its dramatic development and global expansion in the early modern era. Over three tumultuous centuries, the Continent experienced a series of crises and creative moments that produced new ways of thinking as well as new ways of living. New movements challenged the established order of late medieval Christendom. Such developments included the Renaissance and the rise of Humanism, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, global colonization efforts, shifting gender norms, the rise of consumer culture, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. Readings will include both primary source materials and research from contemporary scholarship, familiarizing students with some of the key documents from the period while exposing them to the historiography on the subject. Although there exists a very extensive body of scholarship on early modern Europe, we will primarily concentrate on the issues which most interest historians today, focusing on the interconnected matters of faith, empire, gender, environment, and intellectual currents.

IV The Central Middle Ages (900–1200) (i) European History

Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature, 1990

General G. Holmes, The Oxford illustrcr/ed history of niedieval Eltrope (OUP, f17.50) is divided into six chapters to provide one chapter for northern and one for southern Europe for each of three periods; the relevant ones for this period are the work of the late D. Whitton and Rosemary Morris. Considerations of space make the treatment something of a gallop. For a studied attempt at periodization. see P. Delogu (ed.). Periodi e conrenuti de1 tiiedio evo (Rome: II ventaglio), which tries to categorize the early, central and late middle ages. Jacques Le Goff. Merlievol civilization (Basil Blackwell. f22.50) is a translation of La civilistition tle l'ocrideirt riifdiPval, which first appeared in 1964. when it shocked conservatives iind Catholics by its resolute aim of treating civilisation in its broadest sense of popular attitudes and how they were shaped rather than concentrating o n medieval Europe's finest achievements. Lively. though superficial and now somewhat dated. it is the only comprehensive overview of medieval mentalites in English. A. Gurevich. Medieval popiilur ciiltiirc (CUP. f27.50) attempts to work out popular attitudes to death and religion from didactic religious literature. More profound than Le Goff. it is also more muddled. On Europe and the wider world, see J.R.S. Phillips. Tire rriedievd exparision of Europe (OUP. f27.50). pbk f8.95). a useful introduction to the question. and the idiosyncratic L.N. Gumilev, Searches for an inicrginary kiiigdoiri: the legend of the kirigdoni offrester John (CUP. 1987, f37.50). Neither, alas. really tries to sort out modern scholarship on the Letter of Prester John. At last. a work which tries to set medieval money. usually purely the preserve of numismatists, in its wider context: P. Spufford. Money uiitl its iise in i~ietlievcrl Europe (CUP. f50.00) is extremely informative but not so strong on synthesis. with paragraphs too short to allow for any development of an argument. The twelfth century is passed over rather quickly. especially where France and Spain are concerned. H.W. Goetz. 'Gottesfriede und Gemeindebildung' (Zeit. der Savigtiy-Stiftung fiir Rechtsgeschichte. Gernianisrisckc Abteilitrig. 105) says that nascent communes used similar concepts to the Peace of God movement because they grew out of the Same background, rather than being directly derived from it. E. Patlagean. 'Europe, seigneurie. feodalite: Marc Bloch et les limites orientales d'un espace de comparaison' (Studi niedievuli. 29) attacks Bloch for assuming that eastern Europe wasn't feudal. M. Mitterauer, '"Senioris sui nomine". Zur Verbreitung von Fiirstennamen durch das Lehenswesen' (Mitteilungen des Institiits fiir osterreickische Geschichtsforschung, 96) attributes the diminution of the number of forenames in circulation to the practice of naming sons for one's lord. One of the most ambitious publications of the year was the proceedings of the 1986 Monumenta Germaniae f Iistorica conference on medieval forgeries. Fiilsclzctngen inz Mittelulter. Internationaler Kongress der Monumenta Germaniae Historica (5 vols., Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung). The first volume deals with forgery in narrative sources. the second with the punishment of forgers (mostly dealing with the proscriptions of canon law), the third and fourth with forged charters and the 24 CENTRAL MlDDLE AGES 2s fifth (more details below) with letters. Out of over 150 articles at least half deal with the 10th-12th centuries. Ecclesiastical and papal history E-D. Hehl (ed.), Die Konzilien Deutschlands

Atlas of Medieval Europe- İng.

THE EARLY MIDDLEAGES (to c. 1100) Politics The Roman Empire in 395 AD 7 Barbarian Migrations of the Fourth and Fifth Centuries 8 Barbarian Kingdoms in the First Half of the Sixth Century 9 Merovingian Gaul, c. 600 10 The Empire of Justinian, 527-65 12 The Expansion of Islam in the Mediterranean Area (7th-9th centuries) 14 Italy in the Eighth Century 16 The Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne, 768-814 18 Division of the Carolingian Empire, 843 21 The Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian Dynasty (9th-11th Centuries) 21 Vikings 23 Magyars 25 The East European States, c. 1000 26 France and its Principalities, c. 1000 28 England Before the Normans 30 The Spanish and Portuguese Reconquest to c. 1140 33 The Ottonian Empire, 962 35 Religion Christianity and Paganism in the West, c. 350-750 38 Early Monasticism to 547 40 Northern European Monasticism Byzantine Missions among the Slavs Tenth-and Eleventh-Century Centres of Reform Episcopal Sees in Europe at the End of the Tenth Century The Influx of Relics into Saxony

Scientific Report: : Second Edition of the International Conference “Medieval Europe in Motion”

The Second Edition of the International Conference “Medieval Europe in Motion” took place in Lisbon in April 4-6, 2015. It aimed to follow up the initiative "Medieval Europe in Motion: the circulation of artists, images, patterns and ideas, from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast", held in Lisbon in 2013 and organized by the Institute for Medieval Studies of the Nova University Lisbon.