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List of Maps; Figure; Table |
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Preface to the Third Edition |
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Preface to the First Edition |
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Preface to the Second Edition |
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Acknowledgements |
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Bibliographical note |
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PART I. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY: EXPANSION AND HEGEMONY |
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Government in the Later Thirteenth Century |
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3 | (26) |
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The political contours of thirteenth-century Europe |
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3 | (1) |
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4 | (3) |
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7 | (3) |
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Consent and consultation: medieval parliaments |
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10 | (3) |
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Government and administration |
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13 | (2) |
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Communes: the medieval city-state |
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15 | (5) |
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Institutions of urban government |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (8) |
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Appendix: King James I negotiates with the Catalan Estates, 1264 |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (6) |
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Italy and the Mediterranean in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century |
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29 | (19) |
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29 | (1) |
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Sicily: the struggle for succession |
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30 | (2) |
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The papacy, the Angevin alliance and the defeat of the Hohenstaufen |
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32 | (3) |
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Venice and the lure of Byzantium |
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35 | (2) |
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37 | (2) |
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39 | (2) |
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The late thirteenth-century papacy |
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41 | (2) |
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43 | (5) |
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44 | (4) |
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The Triumph of the French Monarchy |
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48 | (19) |
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The late thirteenth-century Capetians |
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48 | (5) |
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Crown and Church: Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII |
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53 | (1) |
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Taxation: politics, persecution and consent |
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54 | (4) |
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Concepts and images of monarchy and nation |
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58 | (9) |
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61 | (6) |
PART II. THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: CRISES AND RESTRUCTURING |
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67 | (23) |
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67 | (4) |
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Imperial politics from 1273 |
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71 | (5) |
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Fragmentation and confederation |
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76 | (2) |
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78 | (4) |
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82 | (8) |
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Appendix: The Battle of Morgarten, 1315 |
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83 | (2) |
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85 | (5) |
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Economic Setbacks and Developments in the Later Middle Ages |
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90 | (22) |
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90 | (1) |
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The European economy to the end of the thirteenth century |
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91 | (2) |
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The problems of the fourteenth century |
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93 | (6) |
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Plague and popular movements |
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99 | (3) |
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102 | (2) |
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104 | (8) |
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105 | (7) |
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The Troubles of the Roman Church |
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112 | (20) |
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112 | (6) |
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The Great Schism and the conciliar movement |
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118 | (4) |
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122 | (10) |
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128 | (4) |
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French Defeats and Chivalrous Ideals: The Hundred Years War |
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132 | (21) |
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The background to the war |
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132 | (2) |
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The first phase of the war |
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134 | (2) |
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Internal problems of the French monarchy |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (3) |
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140 | (13) |
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146 | (7) |
PART III. THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: NEW DYNAMICS |
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153 | (19) |
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The urban and secular culture of Italy |
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153 | (3) |
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156 | (4) |
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Wealth, family and patronage |
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160 | (3) |
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Florence and the spread of new ideas |
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163 | (9) |
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166 | (6) |
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Burgundy, the Great Duchy of the West |
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172 | (15) |
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France's internal crisis and the rise and fall of Burgundy |
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172 | (6) |
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178 | (5) |
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183 | (4) |
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Appendix: Philip the Good's Banquet at Lille, 1454 |
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184 | (1) |
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184 | (3) |
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The Territorial Lordships of Italy |
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187 | (19) |
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The decline of the republics |
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187 | (3) |
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The rise of the signori: the case of Milan |
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190 | (2) |
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192 | (4) |
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The Italian political system |
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196 | (2) |
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198 | (8) |
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Appendix: Leonardo da Vinci writes to offer his services to Ludovico `Il Moro' of Milan, c. 1483 |
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200 | (1) |
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201 | (5) |
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206 | (12) |
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English triumphs and reversals: the end of the war |
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206 | (2) |
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208 | (5) |
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Charles VIII, Louis XII and Italy |
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213 | (5) |
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215 | (3) |
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218 | (14) |
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218 | (1) |
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218 | (3) |
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The marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella |
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221 | (2) |
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The rule of Ferdinand and Isabella |
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223 | (3) |
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226 | (2) |
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228 | (4) |
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229 | (3) |
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German Disunity and the Origins of the Reformation |
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232 | (19) |
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Emperor, princes and the Church |
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232 | (3) |
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235 | (3) |
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238 | (3) |
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Lutheranism and the Reformation |
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241 | (10) |
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Appendix: German National Sentiment in Celtis' Ingolstadt Address, 1492 |
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243 | (1) |
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244 | (7) |
PART IV. WESTERN EUROPE'S PERIPHERIES |
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The Turkish Conquest of South-Eastern Europe |
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251 | (12) |
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Westerners in the East and the decline of Byzantium |
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251 | (2) |
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253 | (3) |
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256 | (2) |
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Mahomet II and the fall of Constantinople |
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258 | (5) |
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260 | (3) |
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263 | (17) |
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Changing concepts of East and West |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (5) |
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269 | (3) |
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272 | (3) |
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275 | (1) |
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276 | (4) |
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276 | (4) |
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The Atlantic: from Exploration to Hegemony |
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280 | (15) |
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280 | (1) |
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Portugal and overseas enterprise |
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280 | (7) |
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The foundations for two empires |
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287 | (8) |
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288 | (7) |
PART V. NEW PERSPECTIVES |
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Population and the Family |
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295 | (15) |
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Introduction: medieval demography |
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295 | (4) |
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A case study: Florentine Tuscany in the early fifteenth century |
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299 | (3) |
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Family structures, strategies and solidarities |
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302 | (8) |
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307 | (3) |
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Political Writers and the Stronger State |
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310 | (13) |
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310 | (2) |
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312 | (2) |
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314 | (3) |
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317 | (6) |
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318 | (5) |
Index |
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