File Format | PDF
File Size | 5.19 MB
Pages | 601
Language | English
Category | Europe
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Description: First published
to wide critical acclaim in 1992, The Two Cities has become an essential text
for students of medieval history. For the second edition, the author has
thoroughly revised each chapter, bringing the material up to date and taking
the historiography of the past decade into account.
The Two Cities
covers a colourful period from the schism between the eastern and western
churches to the death of Dante.
It encompasses key topics such as:
the Crusades
the expansionist
force of the Normans
major developments
in the way kings, emperors and Popes exercised their powers
a great
flourishing of art and architecture
the foundation
of the very first universities.
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The Two Cities: Medieval Europe 1050-1320