Western Civilization_ Volume B_ 1300 to 1815 - Jackson J. Spielvogel [1]
TO DIANE,
WHOSE LOVE AND SUPPORT MADE IT ALL POSSIBLE
J.J.S.
BRIEF CONTENTS
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DOCUMENTS
MAPS
FEATURES
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION TO STUDENTS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
WESTERN CIVILIZATION TO 1300
11 THE LATER MIDDLE AGES: CRISIS AND DISINTEGRATION IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
12 RECOVERY AND REBIRTH: THE AGE OF THE RENAISSANCE
13 REFORMATION AND RELIGIOUS WARFARE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
14 EUROPE AND THE WORLD: NEW ENCOUNTERS, 1500–1800
15 STATE BUILDING AND THE SEARCH FOR ORDER IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
16 TOWARD A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH: THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN SCIENCE
17 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: AN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
18 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: EUROPEAN STATES, INTERNATIONAL WARS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
19 A REVOLUTION IN POLITICS: THE ERA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON
GLOSSARY
CHAPTER NOTES
INDEX
DETAILED CONTENTS
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DOCUMENTS
MAPS
FEATURES
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION TO STUDENTS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
WESTERN CIVILIZATION TO 1300
11 THE LATER MIDDLE AGES: CRISIS AND DISINTEGRATION IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
A Time of Troubles: Black Death and Social Crisis
Famine and Population
The Black Death: From Asia to Europe
The Black Death in Europe
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS
CAUSES OF THE BLACK DEATH: CONTEMPORARY VIEWS
Economic Dislocation and Social Upheaval
War and Political Instability
Causes of the Hundred Years’ War
Conduct and Course of the War
Political Instability
FILM & HISTORY
JOAN OF ARC (1948), THE MESSENGER: THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC (1999)
The Growth of England’s Political Institutions
The Problems of the French Kings
The German Monarchy
The States of Italy
The Decline of the Church
Boniface VIII and the Conflict with the State
The Papacy at Avignon (1305–1377)
The Great Schism
New Thoughts on Church and State and the Rise of Conciliarism
Popular Religion in an Age of Adversity
Changes in Theology
The Cultural World of the Fourteenth Century
The Development of Vernacular Literature
Art and the Black Death
Society in an Age of Adversity
Changes in Urban Life
New Directions in Medicine
IMAGES OF EVERYDAY LIFE
ENTERTAINMENT IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Inventions and New Patterns
Chapter Summary
Chapter Timeline
Chapter Review
12 RECOVERY AND REBIRTH: THE AGE OF THE RENAISSANCE
Meaning and Characteristics of the Italian Renaissance
The Making of Renaissance Society
Economic Recovery
Social Changes in the Renaissance
The Family in Renaissance Italy
The Italian States in the Renaissance
The Five Major States
Independent City-States
Warfare in Italy
The Birth of Modern Diplomacy
Machiavelli and the New Statecraft
The Intellectual Renaissance in Italy
Italian Renaissance Humanism
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS
THE RENAISSANCE PRINCE: THE VIEWS OF MACHIAVELLI AND ERASMUS
Education in the Renaissance
Humanism and History
The Impact of Printing
The Artistic Renaissance
Art in the Early Renaissance
The Artistic High Renaissance
The Artist and Social Status
The Northern Artistic Renaissance
Music in the Renaissance
The European State in the Renaissance
The Growth of the French Monarchy
England: Civil War and a New Monarchy
The Unification of Spain
The Holy Roman Empire: The Success of the Habsburgs
The Struggle for Strong Monarchy in Eastern Europe
The Ottoman Turks and the End of the Byzantine Empire
The Church in the Renaissance
The Problems of Heresy and Reform
The Renaissance Papacy
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