Europe in the High Middle Ages, 1150-1309

by John H. Mundy and Bradford P. Mundy

Book Overview

A revised and updated new edition of Professor Mundy's lively introduction to Europe 1150-1300. It provides a portrait of the social, economic, political and intellectual life of Latin Christendom in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582493951
• ISBN13: 9780582493957
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 467 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A General History of Europe - The Golden Mean

Mundy's Europe in the High Middle Ages, along with the two companion works by Denys Hay and Christopher Brooke, provide an extraordinarily useful study of the medieval period. They fit perfectly between a general survey text and more narrowly focused monographic studies. Using a largely similar structure, the three books provide a comprehensive and broadly focused study of all aspects of the medieval experience. But what is most useful about these books, especially Mundy's, is that they look beneathe the events of their respective periods to find deeper but less obvious forces of change. Mundy's particular emphasis on the expansion of literacy and education beyond the clerical class is an extremely important insight. For a non-specialist who seeks a complete but managable and eminently readable collection on the Middle Ages, these three books are without peer.