The medieval world: Europe, 1100-1350

by Friedrich Heer

Paper Book, 1962

Status

Available

Call number

940.17 HEE

Collection

Publication

Cleveland, World Pub. Co. [1962]

Description

In 1100 Europe was open in boundaries, faith and outlook. By the middle of the fourteenth century it was 'closed'-by Mongol and Turkish invasions, by the rift with Byzantium, by the intolerant dogmatism of the Church. Friedrich Heer's tour de force of scholarship and originality recreates that world: the daily life of aristocrats and peasants, town-dwellers and countryfolk; the growth of serfdom and the flowering of chivalry; the roles of cleric and courtier, painter and poet, king and philosopher. In it we can see our own world in embryo. As Professor Heer writes: 'History is the present, the present is history'.

Language

Original publication date

1961

Physical description

365 p.; 25 cm

DDC/MDS

940.17 HEE

User reviews

LibraryThing member Miro
Freidrich Greer was a professor of the History of Ideas at the University of Vienna and in this book he looks at western european medieval history from 1150 - 1350 (the Early Middle Ages).
He integrates a lot of information very successfully - the Angevins, Italian banking, the Hanseatic League,
Show More
but over it all he shows that this was still a time of fluidity in religion and the formation of states. Catholicism fought with revivalist religions (Cathars etc.) and dynastic control ebbed and flowed over the whole region ( e.g. the conquest of England by the Dukes of Normandy or later Angevin rule including England and Provence). Extreme religious and nationalist intolerance came in the later Middle Ages.
It's complex and OTT in places but an interesting book written by a knowledgeable enthusiast.
Show Less
LibraryThing member DinadansFriend
My mind was formed with an appreciation of the relatively tidy Middle Ages available to the English speaker, the history of the island of Great Britain. This is a differing view of the larger questions that arise with an education arising from a Central European framework. It is an essential book
Show More
to the previous generation of medievalists. Though there are some signs that this work was originally begun under the Nazui regime, the framework demonstrated here is a valuable item in creating a broader world view than the strictly British/North American focus.
Show Less

Similar in this library

Page: 0.1451 seconds