The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350 - Rilegato

Bartlett, Robert

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ISBN 10: 069103298X ISBN 13: 9780691032986

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1993

Riassunto

From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond their borders and forced European cultural values on other peoples. This provocative book shows that Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer.

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Recensione

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993
"The most stimulating and well-written reassessment of medieval Europe that has appeared for many years."--Eric Christiansen, The New York Review of Books

"Bartlett amasses a wealth of documentation and, unlike other authors, he weaves a rich tapestry of colourful incidents, personalities, and contemporary comment.... A masterful survey of the forces that shaped the West."--Theodore K. Rabb, The Times Literary Supplement

"An absolutely first-rate book.... Bartlett has elucidated the making not only of Europe but of our own country and of the modern world as a whole."--Roger Draper, The New Leader

"Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the problems of Europe today."--Keith Thomas, Guardian

The Making of Europe is an important book. . . . This excellent discussion of medieval colonial expansion is much overdue. . . . [It] goes a long way toward understanding what is meant by the European mindset and sheds some light on why this mindset spread into the far corners of the globe."--Madelyn B. Dick, History: Reviews of New Books

. . . a useful and illuminating book, marked by breadth of outlook, impressive erudition, and a convincing discussion of the principal forces contributing to the "making of Europe" between the tenth and the fourteenth centuries."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Contenuti

	List of Maps, Figures and Tables
	List of Plates
	Acknowledgements
	A Note on References
	Introduction	1
1	The Expansion of Latin Christendom	5
2	The Aristocratic Diaspora	24
3	Military Technology and Political Power	60
4	The Image of the Conqueror	85
5	The Free Village	106
6	The New Landscape	133
7	Colonial Towns and Colonial Traders	167
8	Race Relations on the Frontiers of Latin Europe (1): Language and Law	197
9	Race Relations on the Frontiers of Latin Europe (2): Power and Blood	221
10	The Roman Church and the Christian People	243
11	The Europeanization of Europe	269
12	The Political Sociology of Europe after the Expansion	292
	List of Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography	315
	Notes	317
	Bibliography of Works Cited	385
	Index	417

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 069103298X
• ISBN 13: 9780691032986
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 416