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Old Europe : a study of continuity, 1000-1800

Title: Old Europe : a study of continuity, 1000-1800 / Dietrich Gerhard.
Author: Gerhard, Dietrich, 1896-1985.
Publication: New York : Academic Press, ©1981.

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Description

xii, 147 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in social discontinuity

Uniform Title

Studies in social discontinuity.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Methodological prolegomena -- Prologue: the age of the monasteries and early feudalism -- Delimitation of the period -- Devices that led toward mastery of the material conditions of life -- Agriculture and settlement -- Feudalism -- Kingship -- The church -- Diversity and unity -- The crystallization of old Europe: the formative period -- Material conditions -- The peace movement and the movement for monastic reform -- The reform papacy -- Artistic and intellectual development -- The cities -- The countryside -- Knighthood -- The meaning of estates -- Progress and limitations of kingship and emerging nations -- Diversity and unity -- Change and continuity within old Europe -- The conditions of life -- The effects of inventions -- The economy and its impact on society -- The tensions of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- The Renaissance -- The dynastic state -- The Reformation and the religious wars -- Incipient emancipation amidst the persistence of the old order -- The scientific revolution and the shaping of the Enlightenment -- The economy -- The state -- Weakening and persistence of the corporate order -- Epilogue: looking beyond.

ISBN

0122807200
9780122807206

LCCN

81014872

OCLC

ocm07813145
7813145
SCSB-74505

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Princeton University Library