The Middle Ages

volume II

Readings in Medieval History

edited by Brian Tierney

New York 1983

Stron XIII+343, format: 16x23 cm

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CONTENTS


THE END OF THE ANCIENT WORLD 1
General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West
EDWARD GIBBON 3
The Decay of Ancient Civilization
MICHAEL ROSTOVTZEFF 9
The Impact of Christianity
GERHART B. LADNER 17

THE MAKING OF EUROPE 35
Mohammad and Charlemagne
HENRI PIRENNE 37
Pirenne and Muhammad
DANIEL C. DENNETT 48
Charlemagne and the Roman Church
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON 62
Pirenne's Thesis Today
BRYCE LYON 66

APPROACHES TO FEUDALISM 71
Feudalism: Meanings and Methodologies
DAVID HERLIHY 73
Kinship and Lordship
MARC BLOCH

10.   Feudalism in Western Europe
joseph r. strayer 94

ECONOMIC LIFE AND SOCIAL CHANGE 205
Manorial Economies
georges duby 107
On the Evidence of Growth of Population in the West
leopold génicot 118
The Origins of the Medieval Town Patriciate
a. b. hibbert 227
Life on the English Manor
h. s. bennett 239

HUMANISM AND "RENAISSANCE" IN
THE TWELFTH CENTURY 255
The Humanism of the Twelfth Century
david knowles 257
Medieval Humanism
r. w. southern 269
Renaissance or Proto-Renaissance?
eva matthews sanford 184

MEDIEVAL WOMEN: THEORIES
AND FACTS 293
The Position of Women
eileen power 295
Private and Public Roles
susan mosher stuard 206
Courtly Love
c. s. lewis 225

SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL POWER 222
The Hierocratic Doctrine
walter ullmann 223
The Dualism of Mediaeval Society
r. w. and a. j. carlyle 236

THE MEDIEVAL STATE: SOVEREIGNTY, LAW, CONSTITUTIONALISM
On the Lack of a State and Legislative Power in the Middle Ages

The Lack of a State
neville figgis
The Lack of Legislative Power fritz kern
The Emergence of the State
gaines post
Medieval Canon Law and Western Constitutionalism
brian tierney
A Fourteenth-Century Parliament
george l. haskins


GOD, NATURE, AND ART
The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis
lynn white, jr.
The Mirror of Nature
emile male
Thomas Aquinas: Reason and Revelation
etienne gilson


PROBLEMS OF LATE MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
Family and Population

Parents and Children
emmanuel le roy ladurie
Land and Population
m. m. postan
The Closing of the Medieval Frontier
archibald r. lewis
The Black Death and the Jews
philip ziegler
The Causes of the Hundred Years' War
g. p. cuttino