Originally published in 1937 and as a third edition in 1951, this volume discusses the development of Europe and its component states by focussing on events and institutions such as the monarchy, religious wars, the development of agriculture, feudalism, legal systems, chivalry and warfare, education and the arts and literature of the Middle Ages.
1.Europe and Its Peoples in A.D. 1200 2. Innocent III and the Papacy at the Height of Its Power 3. The Emperor Frederick II 4. The Papacy and Italy, c.1250–1300 4. France, 1198–1270 6. The Empire of the East and the Crusades 1198–1291 7. Germany in Anarchy, 1250–1313 8. The Outskirts of Europe in the Thirteenth Century 9. Townsmen and Peasants, 1200–1382 10. Intellectual Life, Literature and Art 11. The Defeat of the Papacy by France 12. The Decline of the Papacy and the Church 13. The Apogee of the French Monarchy 14. The Decline of France in the Hundred Years’ War 15. The Dynastic Rivalries in Germany: Switzerland 16. Italy, 1290–1380 17. The Iberian Peninsula in the Fourteenth Century 18. North and East Europe in the Fourteenth Century 19. The Balkans and the Turkish Advance, 1282–1380 20. Chivalry, Warfare and Daily Life.
Biography
C. W. Previté-Orton (1877–1947) was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge.
