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Author:

Cardini, Franco.

Title:

The companion to medieval society / Franco Cardini ; translated by Corrado Federici.

Publisher:

McGill-Queen's University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

288 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Civilization, Medieval.

Other Authors:

Federici, Corrado, 1946-

Other Titles:

Societa medievale. English

Notes:

Translation of: La societa medievale. Includes bibliography (p. 275-276) and index.

Contents:

What are the Middle Ages? -- The "silent collapse" of the western Roman empire -- Christianization of Europe -- A world to be reorganized (eighth to tenth centuries) -- The church -- Women in the church and in society -- The emperor -- Kings -- The aristocracy -- Peasants -- Roads -- The city -- The discovery of the other -- Cathedrals and towers -- Education and universities -- The cultural imaginary -- Holidays and feasts -- Birth and death -- An expanding world -- Internal and external enemies -- The discovery of Asia -- Science and magic -- Languages and literature -- The new figurative art -- The fourteenth-century crisis -- Toward the Renaissance.

ISBN:

0773541039
9780773541030

OCLC:

(OCoLC)793221973

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)