| ||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in The Penguin History of Medieval Europe (Penguin History) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
This is a fascinating, three-dimensional picture of the politics, society and religion of medieval Europe, the age that had as its great theme the unity of Christendom. Maurice Keen examines tribal wars, the Crusades, the growth of trade and the shifting patterns of community life as villages grew into towns and towns into sizeable cities. He explores how Papal victories, by blurring the distinction between temporal and spiritual matters, eventually undermined the spiritual authority of the Church. And he discusses how the Hundred Years War escalated from a feudal dispute into a full-scale national conflict, until, by the mid-fifteenth century, changing economic and social conditions had transformed the unity of Christendom into merely a pious phrase.
About the Author
Maurice Keen is Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, where he lectured in medieval history from 1961 to 2000.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Author covers a millenium in 320 pages and does quite a good job. All the main events of the period, except history of Byzantium, are discussed: the rise and decline of papacy, big crusading adventures and formation of nation states. The author divides the book into the paragraphs that touch upon certain themes (like the great schism). Despite that the book is easy to follow as Mr Keen more or less follows the chronological order of events. I think that the book is excellent introduction to the fascinating epoch of middle-ages.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
3 reviews
31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
An excellent beginning to Medieval studies.
27 April 1999
Format:Paperback
I thought that Mr. Keen's book was an excellent read for the student of Medieval history. His accounts and insights of medieval religious and political thought were throughly explained. The author spends a great deal of time on the complex relationships of the Papacy, England, France, Germany, and Italy with each other. The one negative about the book is that the author spends practically no time on medieval Spain. The bibliography was good, though it should be updated. Overall a good short work for someone to get a good basic understanding of Medieval history.
17 of 26 people found the following review helpful
An Excellent Starting Point
3 Mar 2005
Format:Paperback
In just over 300 very readable pages the author provides an excellent overview of Medieval Europe with plenty of leads for a deeper inquiry. Well worth the time.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Couldn't hold my attention
15 Feb 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I guess I'm just too used to quality fiction. This book seemed rather dry at times, and I found myself finishing a paragraph and not remembering what it was about. In addition (although this is really just a pet peeve of mine), there were sentence fragments that served no artistic purpose and would have been better rendered as full sentences.
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
