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The Making of Polities: Europe, 1300-1500
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The Making of Polities: Europe, 1300-1500, This major survey of political life in late medieval Europe - the first for more than thirty years - provides an entirely new framework for understanding the developments that shaped this turbulent period. Rather than emphasising crisis, decline, disorder, The Making of Polities: Europe, 1300-1500
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  • The Making of Polities: Europe, 1300-1500
  • Written by author John Watts
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, 11/17/2010
  • This major survey of political life in late medieval Europe - the first for more than thirty years - provides an entirely new framework for understanding the developments that shaped this turbulent period. Rather than emphasising crisis, decline, disorder
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List of maps ix

Acknowledgements x

1 Introduction 1

Historiography 9

Three grand narratives 13

Social and economic crisis 13

War and disorder 19

The rise of the state 23

Structures 34

2 Europe in 1300: the political inheritance 43

Forms of government and resistance 48

Empires 48

Kings and kingdoms, lords and principalities 68

Communes and leagues 98

Churches 116

Conclusion 122

Forms of political culture 129

Ideas and discourses 131

Communication 148

Networks 153

3 The fourteenth century 158

The course of events 159

c.1300-c.1340 159

c.1340-c.1400 180

Conclusion 201

The growth of government 205

Justice and law 207

Military service 219

Taxation 224

Representation 233

Administration and office 238

Informal structures 244

Political thinking and writing 254

Government and political life 263

Conflicts of jurisdiction 264

Conflicts of political community 270

Resoultion 282

4 The fifteenth century 287

The course of events 291

c.1400-c.1450 291

c.1450-c.1500 339

Co-ordination and consolidation: the regnal polity 376

Political culture 381

Developments in government 393

The practice of politics 410

5 Conclusion 420

Bibliographical notes 426

Index 453


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