The Making of Polities: Europe, 1300 1500

by John Watts

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521792320
• ISBN13: 9780521792325
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"