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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Why the Middle Ages Matter | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | The Early Middle Ages: The Third through Ninth Centuries | |
| 1 | The Roman World at Its Height | 7 |
| 2 | The Rise of Christianity | 23 |
| 3 | Early Germanic Society | 48 |
| 4 | Cloister and Culture | 69 |
| 5 | The Emergence of the Medieval Worlds | 86 |
| 6 | The Carolingian Era | 109 |
| Pt. 2 | The Central Middle Ages: The Tenth through Twelfth Centuries | |
| 7 | The Time of Troubles | 137 |
| 8 | Revolutions on Land and Sea | 155 |
| 9 | A New Europe Emerges: North and South | 175 |
| 10 | The Reform of the Church | 208 |
| 11 | The Renaissances of the Twelfth Century | 231 |
| 12 | The Papal Monarchy | 262 |
| Pt. 3 | The Late Middle Ages: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries | |
| 13 | Politics in the Thirteenth Century | 283 |
| 14 | Art and Intellect in the Thirteenth Century | 304 |
| 15 | Daily Life at the Medieval Zenith | 327 |
| 16 | Changes in Religious Life | 352 |
| 17 | The Crises of the Fourteenth Century | 369 |
| 18 | Signs of a New Era | 395 |
| Pt. 4 | Two Epilogues | |
| 19 | Closings In, Closings Out | 413 |
| 20 | The Renaissance in Medieval Context | 427 |
| App. A | The Medieval Popes | 438 |
| App. B | The Carolingians | 443 |
| App. C | The Capetians | 444 |
| App. D | France: The Valois | 445 |
| App. E | England: The Norman and Plantagenet Dynasties | 446 |
| App. F | England: The Lancastrian and Yorkist Dynasties | 447 |
| App. G | Germany: The Ottonian, Salian, and Hohenstaufen Dynasties | 448 |
| App. H | Germany: The Late Medieval Emperors | 449 |
| App. I | The Spanish Kingdoms, 1000-1250 | 450 |
| App. J | The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1500 | 451 |
| Index | 453 |
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Allan Dwyer
reviewed The Worlds of Medieval Europe on March 10, 2015 The Worlds of Medieval Europe
I will examine Content, Tone and Polish and then assign a grade.
CONTENT
The book's reach in regards to time is the tail end of the Roman Imperial period to just before the 15th century Renaissance and its reach in regards to space is from the Iberian Peninsula to Central Asia, and from Norway to North Africa. Mr. Backman does not regard Medieval Europe as existing on its own but as a part of this wider world.
The book's theme is less about narrating the events that happen but more about how these events fit in with the society, influence it, and are influenced by it. "Gestalt" is the word I'd use to describe the book's focus. In other words, how the machinery of Medieval European Society functioned in addition to all it's little gears and what this created.
There is a great deal of information here. It's about the time, the society, the economy, the religious life, the cultural life, along with farmers, merchants, nobles, priests, sailors contrasted with each other. As many as three chapters will go over the same time period in order to examine them from different angles.
TONE
Forget all stereotypes about academic books being stifling or dry. This one is remarkably engaging. There is a strong writer's voice present that make it like a storyteller instead of a historian, and yet it remains objective.
Footnotes have jokes in them. A good chunk of them exist solely to provide some historical fun fact or for Mr. Backmann to make some humorous illustration of a point.
POLISH
No spelling or grammar errors. There's a good use of images.
Trickster Eric Novels gives "Worlds of Medieval Europe" an A+
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