Research Catalog

Title

Why Europe? : the medieval origins of its special path / Michael Mitterauer ; translated by Gerald Chapple.

Author

Mitterauer, Michael

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Chapple, Gerald

Description

xxiv, 406 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

While most historians have located the beginning of Europe's special path in the rise of state power in the modern era Mitterauer establishes its origins in rye and oats and traces the roots of Europe's singularity to the medieval era specifically to developments in agriculture.

Uniform Title

• Warum Europa? English
• University press scholarship online.

Alternative Title

Warum Europa?

Subject

• 476-1492
• Geschichte 900-1500
• European federation > History
• Civilization, Medieval
• Agriculture > Europe > History > To 1500
• Europe > Civilization
• Europe > History > 476-1492

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Translation of: Warum Europa? (München : C.H. Beck, 2003).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rye and oats : the agrarian revolution of the early middle ages -- Manor and hide : the manorial roots of European social structures -- The conjugal family and bilateral kinship : social flexibility through looser ties of descent -- The feudal system and the estates : a special path of feudalism -- The papal church and universal religious orders : Western Christendom as a highly organized religious community -- The Crusades and protocolonialism : the roots of European expansionism -- Preaching and printing : early modes of mass communication -- "Through what concatenation of circumstances -- ?" : interacting determinants of Europe's special path.

ISBN

• 9780226532530 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0226532534 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010005833

OCLC

• 528665899
• SCSB-12749221

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library