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100 1 $aCantor, Norman F.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50030857
245 14 $aThe civilization of the Middle Ages :$ba completely revised and expanded edition of Medieval history : the life and death of a civilization /$cNorman F. Cantor.
250 $a1st HarperPerennial ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperPerennial,$c1994, ©1993.
300 $axiv, 604 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [569]-576) and index.
505 20 $g1.$tThe Heritage of the Ancient World --$g2.$tThe Foundations of the Middle Ages --$g3.$tThe Age of the Barbarian Invasions --$g4.$tJustinian and Mohammed --$g5.$tThe Advance of Ecclesiastical Leadership --$g6.$tThe Making of Carolingian Kingship --$g7.$tCulture and Society in the First Europe --$g8.$tEcclesia and Mundus --$g9.$tByzantium, Islam, and the West --$g10.$tEurope in 1050 --$g11.$tThe Gregorian World Revolution --$g12.$tThe Anglo-Norman Monarchy and the Emergence of the Bureaucratic State --$g13.$tThe First Crusade and After --$g14.$tThe Intellectual Expansion of Europe --$g15.$tMoslem and Jewish Thought: The Aristotelian Challenge --$g16.$tVarieties of Religious Experience --$g17.$tThe Entrenchment of Secular Leadership --$g18.$tThe Peace of Innocent III --$g19.$tThe New Consensus and Its Limitations --$g20.$tThe Search for Order --$g21.$tLate Medieval and Renaissance Culture --$tThe Middle Ages on Film.
520 $aIn 1963, Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages. Further editions of this immediately celebrated book appeared in 1968 and 1974. Now, a thorough revision, update and significant expansion of the book has been made with a third of the text new.
520 8 $aThe Civilization of the Middle Ages incorporates current research, recent trends in interpretation, and novel perspectives, especially on the foundations of the Middle Ages to A.D. 450 and the Later Middle Ages of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as well as a sharper focus in social history, Jewish history, and women's roles in society, and popular religion and heresy.
520 8 $aWhile the first and last sections of the book are almost entirely new and many additions have been incorporated in the intervening sections, Cantor has retained the powerful narrative flow that made the earlier editions so accessible and exciting.
520 8 $aCantor's book was innovative in 1963 because it was the first comprehensive general history of the Middle Ages to center on medieval culture and religion rather than political history (which was, however, dealt with, but from the perspective of applied intellect and social ordering). It remains a unique book in that regard. The book also featured the highlighting of prominent medieval personalities through dozens of biographical sketches, which has been retained.
520 8 $aAlthough it draws upon a century of detailed research on the medieval world and is authoritative in its learning, from first page to last, Cantor's book tells an exciting and compelling story.
650 0 $aCivilization, Medieval.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026463
650 0 $aMiddle Ages.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085001
740 0 $aMedieval history.
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