The Transformation of Europe 1300-1600

by David Nicholas

Book Overview

This comprehensive survey of European history between 1300 and 1600 challenges conventional vision of Europe that divides the world between the late-medieval and early modern periods, emphasizing the distortion involved in that construction. Important changes toward "modernity" are evident, the book argues, as early as the fourteenth century; only in religious history does there appear to be some justification for retaining the traditional notion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340662085
• ISBN13: 9780340662083
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"