General References For Middle Ages



Church and Religion

Chadwick, H. The Early Church, 1967.

Knowles, David, Christian Monasticism, 1969.

Leclercq, J., F. Vandenbroucke, and L. Bouyer, The Spirituality of the Middle Ages, 1968.

Le Goff, J. The Birth of Purgatory, trans. By A. Goldhammer, 1984.

McManners, J., ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity, 1990.

Herrin, J. The Formation of Christendom, 1987.

Tellenbach, Gerd, The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century, T. Reuter, trans., 1993.

Brooke, R. and C. Brooke, Popular Religion in the Middle Ages, 1984.

Brooke, C., The Monastic World, 1974.

Oakley, F., The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages, 1979.

Swanson, R.N., Church and Society in Late Medieval England, 1989.

 

Early Middle Ages

Barraclough, Geoffrey, The Crucible of Europe: The Ninth and Tenth Centuries, 1976.

Munz, P. The Age of Charlemagne, 1971.

McKitterick, R., The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751-987, 1983.

 

Social History

Herlihy, David, Medieval Households, 1985.

Wemple, S.F., Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500-900, 1981.

Duby, G., Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West, 1968.

Hanawalt, Barbara, Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History, 1993.

Barber, R., The Knight and Chivalry, 1982.

Keen, Maurice, Chivalry, 1984.

Dyer, C. Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages, 1989.

Nicholas, D. The Domestic Life of a Medieval City: Women, Children, and the Family in Fourteenth-Century Ghent, 1985.

Robertson, Jr., D.W., Chaucer's London, 1968.

Ziegler, Philip, The Black Death, 1969.

Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, 1978.

 

National Histories

Mango, C. Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome, 1980.

Leyser, K., Medieval Germany and Its Neighbors, 900-1250, 1982.

Fletcher, R., Moorish Spain, 1992.

Nicholas, D., Medieval Flanders, 1992.

Hallam, Elizabeth, The Capetian Kings of France, 987-1328, 1980.

Havercamp, A. Medieval Germany 1056-1273, 1992.

Ormrod, W.M., The Reign of Edward III. Crown and Political Society in England, 1327-1377. 1990

Perroy, E., The Hundred Years' War, 1959.

Allmand, C. The Hundred Years' War: England and France at War, c. 1300--c. 1450, 1988.

 

Surveys

Mayer, H.E., The Crusades, trans. By John Gillingham, 1972.

Holmes, G., ed., The Oxford History of Medieval Europe, 1992.

 

Miscellaneous

Bartlett, R., Trial by Fire and Water: The Medieval Judicial Ordeal, 1986.

Bartlett, R., The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350, 1993.

Nicholas, D. The Evolution of the Medieval World, 1992.

Strayer, J.R., On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State, 1970.

 

The Later Middle Ages 

Bainton, R.H. Erasmus of Christendom, 1960.

Berenson, B. Italian Painters of the Renaissance. 1957.

Brucker, G.A. Renaissance Florence, 1969.

Brucker, G.A. Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence, 1986.

Ferguson, W.K. Europe in Transition, 1300-1520, 1962.

Jensen, D.L. Renaissance Europe: Age of Recovery and Reconciliation, 1981.

Further Studies

G. Holmes, ed.: The Oxford History of Medieval Europe  
G.E. von Grunebaum: Classical Islam  
C.H. Lawrence: Medieval Monasticism  

 

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