Part I: The Early Middle Ages: The Birth of Europe
Chapter 1: Rome Becomes Christian, c. 31 BCE – 430 C.E. Chapter 2:
Barbarian Settlement in the West, c. 400 – 500Chapter 3: Early
Western Christendom, c. 500 – 700Chapter 4: Neighbors: Byzantium
and Islam, c. 500 – 1000Chapter 5: Carolingian Europe, c. 700 –
850Chapter 6: Division, Invasion, and Reorganization, c. 800 –
1000Part II: The Central Middle Ages: Reform, Revival, and
ExpansionChapter 7: Economic Takeoff and Social Change, c. 1000 –
1300Chapter 8: New Paths to God, c. 1000 – 1250Chapter 9:
Conquests, Crusades, and Persecutions, c. 1100 – 1300Chapter 10:
Worlds in Collision: Papacy and Holy Roman Empire, c. 1125 –
1300Chapter 11: States in the Making: England and France, c. 1050 –
1300Chapter 12: Literature, Art, and Thought, c. 1000 – 1300Part
III: The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and CreativityChapter 13:
Famine, Plague, and Recovery, c. 1300 – 1500Chapter 14: Toward the
Sovereign State, c. 1300 – 1500Chapter 15: Diversity and Dynamism
in Late Medieval Culture, c. 1300 – 1500
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Appendix: Some Popes and Monarchs of Medieval EuropeCitations
C. Warren Hollister was Professor Emeritus of History at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, received his BA from
Harvard University and his MA and PhD from UCLA. A Fellow of the
Medieval Academy of America, the Royal Historical Society (London),
the Medieval Academy of Ireland, the Australian National
University, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and Merton
College, Oxford, he was founder and past president of the Charles
Homer Haskins Society and served as President of the Pacific Coast
Conference on British Studies, the Medieval Association of the
Pacific, the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch,
the North American Conference on British Studies, and was 1984
Centennial Program Chair of the American Historical Association,
Chair of the University of California Press Editorial Board, and
Chair of the national Development Committee for the College Board
Advanced Placement Test in European History. Professor Hollisters
many books have run through more than thirty editions and have been
translated into several languages. He has also written some fifty
articles on medieval history. Professor Hollister has served on
numerous editorial boards, including Albion, the American
Historical Review, the Journal of British Studies, and the Journal
of Mediaeval History. Among Professor Hollisters other honors were
the Centennial Lectureship of the University of Georgia, the 1987
Denis Bethell Memorial Lectureship of the Medieval Academy of
Ireland (Dublin), the 1988 Wilkinson Memorial Lectureship of the
University of Toronto, the 1990 Lansdowne Lectureship of the
University of Victoria, the 1996 Wei Lun Visiting Professorship of
the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Triennial Book Prize of
the Conference on British Studies, the E. Harris Harbison National
Award for Distinguished Teaching (Princeton University), and the UC
Santa Barbara Faculty Teaching Prize.
Judith M. Bennett teaches medieval history and women's history at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is Martha
Nell Hardy Distinguished Professor. Educated at Mount Holyoke
College, the University of Toronto, and the Pontifical Institute of
Mediaeval Studies, she is the author of numerous books and articles
about peasants, women, and families in the Middle Ages. Professor
Bennett's research has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities
Center, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and numerous other
agencies. She has held lectureships in Australia and England, as
well as the United States. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
in London, she has held offices in such professional organizations
as the Medieval Academy of America, the North American Conference
on British Studies, the Coordinating Council for Women in History,
and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Professor Bennett
has received several awards for her scholarly books and articles,
and she is also an acclaimed teacher at UNC-CH, where she has won a
top teaching award and is now a fellow of the Academy of
Distinguished Teaching Scholars.
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