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Características del artículo
- Estado
- Book Title
- The Middle Ages
- Publication Date
- 2015-01-13
- Pages
- 652
- ISBN
- 9780674055629
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674055624
ISBN-13
9780674055629
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201586145
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
652 Pages
Publication Name
Middle Ages
Language
English
Subject
Europe / General, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
41.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-014404
Reviews
This Johannes Fried project is certainly ambitious--condensing 1,000 years of history into a coherent volume is not an easy task. But Fried manages it with aplomb... Encompassing religion, politics, art, literature, social structures and much more besides, the breadth of the book would make it a useful reference for students and amateur scholars., Johannes Fried's The Middle Ages is an absolute must read for anybody with an interest in the Middle Ages., Fried's breadth of knowledge is formidable and his passion for the period admirable... Those with a true passion for the Middle Ages will be thrilled by this ambitious defensio ., A paean to the modernity of the Middle Ages. Fried is one of the lions of German medieval scholarship of the past generation. His Middle Ages ripple with cultural energy and power. They father the culture of European reason--only to be vilified by Kant and the sons of the Enlightenment., [An] extraordinary history...'Monumental' is an overused word for historical works, but it may be applicable here. The book has the ambition, scope and, above all, plausibility. There is an enormous amount of ground covered in nearly 600 pages, and with an impressive narrative fluency., [Fried's] erudite study traces our evolution towards reason, worldwide exploration, and rational procedures to a dynamic medieval period. This is the springboard to the modern era, as innovation won out against stagnation., Written by one of the most original historians of his generation, this survey of western European medieval history covers the decline of Rome to the eve of the Reformation with verve and intelligence. Fried argues that modernity and the Enlightenment, despite having forgotten their debts to the Middle Ages, actually owe to the period their most valued characteristics: rationality, method, empiricism, doubt, modern science, global interests, citizenship, and last but not least, freedom., This beautifully written and well-translated overview of the period between 500 and 1500 C.E. examines concepts and perceptions rather than kings and battles. Fried, professor of medieval history at the University of Frankfurt, begins with Boethius, whose work bridged classical and late antiquity. The development of new attitudes toward liberty and the beginnings of the division between church and state are described with a lucidity that is rare in historical overviews. Fried considers Jews, Muslims, and women as integral parts of society. He also addresses the development of natural science in the 13th century, noting that its monastic adherents had no problem with trying to discover how God's creation worked. The politics of absolutism are presented in the context of the nature of governance and the rise of the power of commerce. As Fried reaches the plague years of the 14th and 15th centuries and the Renaissance, he analyzes the 'eruption of the supernatural into the real world' through new modes in art and the rise of witch hunts. Fried's conclusion that the 'Middle Ages...crossed seamlessly over into a similarly constituted Early Modern period' is aimed at dispelling the myth of a 'dark' age between antiquity and modernity., In his masterful book titled simply The Middle Ages , Fried begins with Boethius and wends his way to Machiavelli...telling a tale of political thought and philosophical exploration and most importantly of complexity at every step, a journey through Western Europe's middle millennium that encourages the reader to think of the period as a truly fruitful period of intellectual, political, and social transformation... Fried shines as an intellectual historian., Thanks to what German medieval scholar Fried calls the cultural prejudices of such Enlightenment thinkers as Immanuel Kant, the Middle Ages got a bad rap as a 'childish and grotesque' era when, in reality, it was a period of enormous learning, democratization and secularization... Overall, the Middle Ages brought freedom, Fried argues in this passionate but intensely scholarly book (translated from the German), and the desire to know the wider world., [An] extraordinary history... 'Monumental' is an overused word for historical works, but it may be applicable here. The book has the ambition, scope and, above all, plausibility. There is an enormous amount of ground covered in nearly 600 pages, and with an impressive narrative fluency., [Fried] gets down to the business of writing excellent history in this absorbing book... Fried covers much in the realm of ideas on monarchy, jurisprudence, arts, chivalry and courtly love, millenarianism and papal power, all of it a rewarding read... The medieval period was, he argues passionately and convincingly, 'more mature and more wise, more inquisitive, inventive and with a finer feel for art,' and its people 'more revolutionary in their deployment of reason and their thinking' than we give them credit for., Reads like a counterblast to the hot air of the liberal-humanist interpreters of European history... [Readers] will be impressed by the main body of the work, which covers a thousand years of mostly Western and Central European history with magnificent confidence. [Fried] does justice both to the centrifugal fragmentation of the European region into monarchies, cities, republics, heresies, trade and craft associations, vernacular literatures, and to the persistence of unifying and homogenizing forces: the papacy, the Western Empire, the schools, the friars, the civil lawyers, the bankers, the Crusades... Comprehensive coverage of the whole medieval continent in flux.
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
909.07
Table Of Content
Contents Preface 1. Boethius and the Rise of Europe 2. Gregory the Great and the New Power of the Franks 3. Charlemagne and the First Renewal of the Roman Empire 4. Consolidation of the Kingdoms 5. The End of Days Draws Menacingly Close 6. "The True Emperor Is the Pope" 7. The Long Century of Papal Schisms 8. The Vicar of God 9. The Triumph of Jurisprudence 10. The Light of Reason 11. The Monarchy 12. Waiting for Judgment Day and the Renaissance Epilogue: The Dark Middle Ages? Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a "middle" period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated. Across the millennium from 500 to 1500, distinguished historian Johannes Fried describes a dynamic confluence of political, social, religious, economic, and scientific developments that draws a guiding thread through the era: the growth of a culture of reason. Beginning with the rise of the Franks, Fried uses individuals to introduce key themes, bringing to life those who have too often been reduced to abstractions of the medieval "monk" or "knight." Milestones encountered in this thousand-year traversal include Europe's political, cultural, and religious renovation under Charlemagne; the Holy Roman Empire under Charles IV, whose court in Prague was patron to crowning cultural achievements; and the series of conflicts between England and France that made up the Hundred Years' War and gave to history the enduringly fascinating Joan of Arc. Broader political and intellectual currents are examined, from the authority of the papacy and impact of the Great Schism, to new theories of monarchy and jurisprudence, to the rise of scholarship and science. The Middle Ages is full of people encountering the unfamiliar, grappling with new ideas, redefining power, and interacting with different societies. Fried gives readers an era of innovation and turbulence, of continuities and discontinuities, but one above all characterized by the vibrant expansion of knowledge and an understanding of the growing complexity of the world., Johannes Fried gives us a Middle Ages full of people encountering the unfamiliar, grappling with new ideas, redefining power, and interacting with different societies--an era characterized by continuities and discontinuities, the vibrant expansion of knowledge, and an understanding of the growing complexity of the world.
LC Classification Number
D117.F8513 2015
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