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Atlas of the medieval world, Rosamond McKitterick

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-296) and index

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Atlas of the medieval world

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56011447

Rosamond McKitterick

Includes over 90 maps, a chronology, a glossary of terms, index, and many color illustrations

Continuities and discontuities -- Medieval perceptions of the world -- The world in 700 -- The successor states to Rome -- The Arab conquests -- The rise of the Carolingians -- Italy and the Lombards -- The empire of Charlemagne and his successors -- Carolingian culture -- Islamic Spain & the northern Christian kingdoms -- Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to c. 1000 -- The kingdoms of Scotland, Wales and Ireland -- The Norsemen at home and abroad -- Byzantium's neighbours -- Byzantium 700-1000 -- Byzantine culture -- The Abbasid caliphate and subsequent fragmentation -- Islam and Islamic culture -- The temple kingdoms in India -- Religion and empire in Southeast Asia, 700-1000 -- The Tang dynasty -- Religion and missionaries : the expansion of Christianity -- Towns and trade in the early Middle Ages -- Buildings and power -- The world in 1000 -- Law and the judicial process -- Languages in the medieval world -- Networks of communication -- The British Isles and France to the 12th century -- The German empire -- Italy and the papacy -- Kingdoms of Central and Eastern Europe : Bohemia, Hungary and Poland -- Byzantium from Manzikert to the Fourth Crusade -- Fatimid and Mamluk Egypt and North Africa -- The crusades -- The new monasticism and religious alternatives -- Schools and universities in Europe -- Art and architecture -- The economy : agriculture and trade -- Towns and urban life -- Kievan Rus, c. 964-1242 -- The Balkans, c. 1000-1300 -- The Seljuqs and Ayyubids -- The Mongols -- Iran and Central Asia, c. 1000-1220 -- Iran and Central Asia, c. 1330-1500 -- The Delhi sultanate and Vijayanagara India -- Southeast Asia : the golden age of Pagan and Angkor -- Sung China, 960-1279 -- Africa, 1000-1300 -- Scandinavia and the Baltic -- The German empire and Central Europe -- Grand duchy of Lithuania -- Russia. c. 1221-1510 -- Burgundy and the Swiss Confederation, 1300-1500 -- The Black Death and its aftermath : disease and health in Europe -- France and England, 1300-1500 -- Italy and Sicily in the Middle Ages -- Southern Europe and the Balkans, c. 1300-1500 -- The late medieval Church -- The Almoravids and the Almohads -- The Spanish Reconquista (from c. 1200) -- Civic assemblies and representative institutions -- Commercial expansion in the later Middle Ages -- Art and patronage and the courts of rulers -- Literature and the vernaculars -- The Jewish Diaspora in the Middle Ages -- The late Byzantine empire, 1204-1461 -- The Ottoman expansion, 1300-1481 -- China under the Ming dynasty -- The Kamakura shogunate -- The Muromachi shogunate -- Empire and commerce in Southeast Asia -- Islam and new states of Africa, c. 1300-1500 -- Science and humanism -- Printing and the communication of knowledge -- Exploration and missionaries -- Music in the Middle Ages -- The world in 1500