David Nicholas' analysis of the medieval times in Western Europe (400-1450).

The Medieval West, 400-1450: A preindustrial civilization (The Dorsey series in European history)

Nicholas, David

History

Dorsey Press

The wide variety of reference sources include not only books and journals, but also annual reports, directories, statistics, unpublished documents, computerized data bases, authors, and organizations active in the field. Special attention is paid to sources providing information on the impact of Middle-Eastern oil-generated investment on the major economies of the Western world.

The Middle East, Its Oil, Economies and Investment Policies: A Guide to Sources of Financial Information

Science & Math

Greenwood

Urban Europe 1100-1700

Reflecting the vigour of both urban and medieval history, this timely textbook by a leading scholar of urban studies is a broadly interdisciplinary work that breaks new ground by emphasising the links between the late medieval and early modern cities.Urban Europe, 1100-1700:- examines the common social, governmental, economic and intellectual roles played by most pre-modern cities- views cities as originating in local market relations, then expanding with the growing complexity of their functions into regional centres of culture, government and exchange- adopts an organic, evolutionary and environmental approach, particularly in its application of geographical systems to early urbanisation- makes extensive use of maps and original source material to illustrate aspects of the urban experienceDavid Nicholas' study will appeal to students and scholars of history, geography and urban studies. Sociologists and political economists will also value its demonstration of the continuing relevance of the thought of Max Weber, while urban planners will find its analysis of the rationality of pre-modern cities highly useful.

Europe

Red Globe Press

Reflecting the vigour of both urban and medieval history, this timely textbook by a leading scholar of urban studies is a broadly interdisciplinary work that breaks new ground by emphasising the links between the late medieval and early modern cities. Urban Europe, 1100-1700: - examines the common social, governmental, economic and intellectual roles played by most pre-modern cities - views cities as originating in local market relations, then expanding with the growing complexity of their functions into regional centres of culture, government and exchange - adopts an organic, evolutionary and environmental approach, particularly in its application of geographical systems to early urbanisation - makes extensive use of maps and original source material to illustrate aspects of the urban experience David Nicholas' study will appeal to students and scholars of history, geography and urban studies. Sociologists and political economists will also value its demonstration of the continuing relevance of the thought of Max Weber, while urban planners will find its analysis of the rationality of pre-modern cities highly useful.

This comprehensive survey of European history between 1300 and 1600 gently subverts a conventional vision of Europe that divides teh world between the late-medieval and early modern periods, emphasizing the distortion involved in that construction. Important changes toward "modernity" are evident, the book argues, as early as the fourteenth century; only in religious history does there appear to be some justification for retaining the traditional notion that "modern age" began with Martin Luther, though even in that arena the institutional break of the Protestants with Rome cannot conceal fundamental continuity of expression and attitude.

The Transformation of Europe 1300-1600 (The ^AArnold History of Europe)

Hodder Education Publishers

This comprehensive survey of European history between 1300 and 1600 challenges conventional vision of Europe that divides the world between the late-medieval and early modern periods, emphasizing the distortion involved in that construction. Important changes toward "modernity" are evident, the book argues, as early as the fourteenth century; only in religious history does there appear to be some justification for retaining the traditional notion that "modern age" began with Martin Luther, though even in that arena the institutional break of the Protestants with Rome cannot conceal fundamental continuity of expression and attitude.

The Transformation of Europe 1300-1600 (Arnold History of Europe)

Bloomsbury Academic

The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500, the second part of David Nicholas's ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in the Middle Ages, fully lives up to its splendid precursor, The Growth of the Medieval City. (Like that volume it is fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use the two as a continuum.) This book covers a much shorter period than the first. That traced the rise of the medieval European city system from late Antiquity to the early fourteenth century; this offers a portrait of the fully developed late medieval city in all its richness and complexity. David Nicholas begins with the economic and demographic realignments of the last two medieval centuries. These fostered urban growth, raising living standards and increasing demand for a growing range of urban manufactures. The hunger for imports and a shortage of coin led to sophisticated credit mechanisms that could only function through large cities. But, if these changes brought new opportunities to the wealthy, they also created a growing problem of urban poverty: violence became endemic in the later medieval city. Moreover, although more rebellions were sparked by taxes than by class conflict, class divisions were deepening. Most cities came to be governed by councils chosen from guild-members, and most guilds were dominated by merchants. The landowning elite that had dominated the early medieval cities of the first volume still retained its prestige, but its wealth was outstripped by the richer merchants; while craftsmen, who had little political influence, were further disadvantaged as access to the guilds became more restricted. The later medieval cities developed permanent bureaucracies providing a huge range of public services, and they were paid for by sophisticated systems of taxation and public borrowing. The survival of their fuller, richer records allow us not only to apply a more statistical approach, but also to get much closer, to the splendours and squalors of everyday city-life than was possible in the earlier volume. The book concludes with a set of vibrant chapters on women and children and religious minorities in the city, on education and culture, and on the tenor of ordinary urban existence. Like its predecessor, this book is massively, and vividly, documented. Its approach is interdisciplinary and comparative, and its examples and case studies are drawn from across Europe: from France, England, Germany, the Low Countries, Iberia and Italy, with briefer reviews of the urban experience elsewhere from Baltic to Balkans. The result is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date study of its multifaceted subject. It is a formidable achievement.

The Later Medieval City (A History of Urban Society in Europe)

Americas

Routledge

The Later Medieval City: 1300-1500 (History of Urban Society in Europe)

Longman

Medieval Flanders (the lowland region between France and Germany, covered by much of modern Belgium and the Netherlands; the area of Bruges, Ghent and Lille) was a region of immense political and economic importance to Europe at large, and the different aspects of its development have been the subject of an immense literature and an even larger mythology. Within a clear political and diplomatic narrative, David Nicholas presents a survey of Flemish life and times. As the great centre of the cloth trade, Flanders was Northern Europe's main centre of urban and industrial growth and its history is of far more than regional importance. The text includes extensive and lively quotations from contemporary documents most of them appearing in English for the first time. It is designed to be a highly readable and accessible text for the student, scholar and interested general reader.

Medieval Flanders (The Medieval World)

Longman Pub. Group

This ambitious book is designed to meet the need for a comprehensive and sophisticated one-volume survey of medieval Europe that respects the complexity and richness of its subject while opening it up to the student and non-specialist reader. Throughout, David Nicholas stresses the evolutionary continuity that characterises this long period, and is to be found even in those times of change and dislocation by which the succeeding phases of Western history are conventionally divided: particularly, here, between the late Roman world and the 'tribal' Europe of the sixth and seventh centuries, and between the late Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. No single area is emphasised in the treatment: while, inevitably, France and England figure largely in the total picture, detailed attention is also given to Germany, Italy and Spain - and there are extended sections on Byzantium and Islam, the powerful and influential neighbours of the medieval West. The treatment is broadly comparative, looking at regional differences in the discussions of intellectual life, political and social institutions, governance, and economic developments. Although David Nicholas considers political ideas, he is more concerned to explore the realities of public administration and the mechanics of government in medieval Europe, at all levels - local, regional, national. While most medieval textbooks emphasise clerical culture at the expense of lay, Professor Nicholas offers a more balanced approach, with sections on lay and vernacular culture for the early Middle Ages as well as the later. Similarly, he sees education not simply as an extension of religion, but also as a carefully-structured curriculum with practical applications in the workplace. Religion itself is treated as a concern of the laity as well as of the clergy, and there are accordingly substantial sections on folk religion. And Professor Nicholas's research interests in the history of women, children and the family in the Middle Ages are also richly reflected throughout his text. In less expert hands, the book's huge chronological and geographical spread could well have become unwieldy; but David Nicholas seizes the unique opportunity of his vast canvas to explore the major themes of the age in depth and in time. His pages never become superficial or simplistic; nor, for all the wealth of information they convey, is their richness of detail ever allowed to overwhelm the clear and vigorous lines of the argument. This is a scholarly book that the student and general reader can enjoy. It is a notable achievement.

The Evolution of the Medieval World: Society, Government and Thought in Europe, 312-1500

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The Medieval West, 400-1450: A preindustrial civilization (The Dorsey series in European history)

The Middle East, Its Oil, Economies and Investment Policies: A Guide to Sources of Financial Information

Urban Europe 1100-1700

Urban Europe 1100-1700

The Transformation of Europe 1300-1600 (The ^AArnold History of Europe)

The Transformation of Europe 1300-1600 (Arnold History of Europe)

The Later Medieval City (A History of Urban Society in Europe)

The Later Medieval City: 1300-1500 (History of Urban Society in Europe)

Medieval Flanders (The Medieval World)

The Evolution of the Medieval World: Society, Government and Thought in Europe, 312-1500