1st Edition

The High Middle Ages 1200-1550

By Trevor Rowley Copyright 1986
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1986, The High Middle Ages begins in the late twelfth century and ends, not with the arrival of the Tudor monarchs in 1485, but with the destruction of the wealth and power of the Church in the 1530s. The book looks at how the passing of the monasteries marked the transition from an economic and social system based on a balance – however shifting and uneasy – between the... Read more

Acknowledgements

General Editor’s Preface

Preface

1. The High Middle Ages

2. Kings, Castles and Houses of the Great

3. Villages in the Late Middles Ages

4. Medieval Agriculture

5. Woodland, Forests and Parks

6. Industry, Trade and Communications

7. Medieval Towns

8. The Church in the Later Middle Ages

Select Bibliography

Index

Biography

Trevor Rowley