John Watts

Making of Polities (eBook, PDF)

Europe, 1300-1500

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This major survey of political life in late medieval Europe provides a framework for understanding the developments that shaped this turbulent period. Rather than emphasising crisis, decline, disorder or the birth of the modern state, this account centres on the mixed results of political and governmental growth across the continent. The age of the Hundred Years War, schism and revolt was also a time of rapid growth in jurisdiction, taxation and representation, of spreading literacy and evolving political technique. This mixture of state formation and political convulsion lay at the heart of the 'making of polities'. Offering a full introduction to political events and processes from the fourteenth century to the sixteenth, this book combines a broad, comparative account with discussion of individual regions and states, including eastern and northern Europe alongside the more familiar west and south.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511577338
• Artikelnr.: 38203589

Autorenporträt

JOHN WATTS, a member of the Secular Franciscan Order, began writing books after retiring from a career in teaching. Previous publications include history, biography, and fiction. His children's book, The Creatures of Number 37, is also published by Gracewing. John is married and has six children and ten grandchildren. He lives in Addiewell, a former mining village in West Lothian, Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Europe in 1300: the political inheritance
3. The fourteenth century
4. The fifteenth century
5. Conclusion
Bibliographical notes.

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1. Introduction; 2. Europe in 1300: the political inheritance; 3. The fourteenth century; 4. The fifteenth century; 5. Conclusion; Bibliographical notes.

Rezensionen

'This is a work of genuine importance, excellently constructed and rigorously thought out, combining accessibility with great originality. It is a wise, mature, thought-provoking book. This book injects new life into the study of late medieval politics; it offers a highly stimulating and easily accessible overview of political conduct in the late Middle Ages; it is rich in new ideas and will be a fundamental point of reference for future discussion of the politics of the period.' David Abulafia, University of Cambridge