The Body Broken: Medieval Europe 13001520 (Routledge History of the Middle Ages)

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This exciting new textbook offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the later Middle Ages examining a period of huge crisis conflict and religious change. The Body Broken takes a thematic approach to the period 1300- 1520 covering everything from the Black Death and the Reformation to the Peasants Revolt and the Renaissance. This indispensible volume draws on a large body of new and revisionist scholarship covering all of the key areas including: Society and the Economy- disaster and demography; individuals families and community; trade technology exploration and new discoveries Politics- government and the state; war; changes in political geography Religion- the institutional Church; Catholicism and dissenting beliefs and practices; divided faith Culture- schooling and intellectual developments; language literacy and the arts Examining late Medieval Europe in the context of its place within global history and complete with maps tables illustrations chronology and an annotated bibliography this book is the complete authoritative students guide to Europe in the later Middle Ages.