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Short Oxford History of Europe

by Daniel Power (Editor)

Okres od końca X do początków XIV wieku był czasem niezwykle szybkiego rozwoju Europy. W krajobrazie naszego kontynentu pojawiły się tysiące nowych miast i wsi, wznoszono wspaniałe katedry i zamki. Stulecia wielkiego entuzjazmu religijnego ukazały także swoją ciemną stronę - prześladowania heretyków i Żydów. Autorzy analizują historię polityczną, gospodarczą, religijną i intelektualną Europy, omawiając m.in. powstanie i rozwój nowych państw Europy środkowo-wschodniej

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Medieval, Medieval History

352 pages, Hardcover

First published December 24, 2005

About the author

"Daniel Power studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, from 1987, and held a research fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, from 1993. In 1996 he was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005 and Reader in 2007. He took up the post of Professor of Medieval History at Swansea University in September 2007. He is currently the Head of the Department of History and Classics.

Professor Power’s research concerns the history of France and the British Isles in the Central Middle Ages (especially the Anglo-Norman realm, the Angevin Empire, and Capetian France) and medieval frontier societies. His publications include The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), and he has edited The Central Middle Ages (Short Oxford History of Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) and (with Naomi Standen) Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands 700-1700 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1999). His recent publications include a study of participants in the Albigensian Crusade, but they mainly concern the Anglo-Norman aristocracy in the 13th century, after the end of the Anglo-Norman realm in 1204, for which he established the database The ‘Lands of the Normans’ in England (1204-44); he is also preparing a critical edition of the 400 charters of the Hommet family, constables of Normandy in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Professor Power is the Director of MEMO, Swansea University’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research. He is a Member of the Société de l'Histoire de France, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (of London) and the Royal Historical Society."

Source: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academ...

Reviews

[A.E. Chandler]

Written by some top academics as an introduction to the central medieval period. This isn't a general history book or a casual read. There are some wonderfully obscure details. Each contributor takes on a different topic in their chapter, bringing their years of study and specialized knowledge.

[Jenny Mitchell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Engaging, and great maps!

[Patty · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good overview of an admittedly huge span of time and space. Seven chapters written by seven different experts cover a wide variety of topics (religion, economy, kingship, the expansion of Christendom into Eastern Europe, etc). There's not enough time to get deep into anything, of course, but the bibliography points to an incredibly wide range of sources.

[Ancillar Bradingus · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sadly, this book has really good maps. I say "sadly" because in every other conceivable respect, it's fucking awful. Necessary compromises on scope and detail are universally poorly chosen. There is no narrative, only a collection of generalized, mind-numbingly boring lists of facts about spans of time stretching decades or centuries. I've seen second-grade book reports with better instincts concerning readability. HORRID. Oxford should be ashamed.