A Source Book For Medieval History - Selected Documents Illustrating The History Of Europe In The Middle Age - Couverture souple

Thatcher, Oliver

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1445506904 ISBN 13 : 9781445506906

Editeur : Read Books, 2010

Synopsis

Originally published in 1907. Contents include detailed sections on: The Germans and the Empire to 1073 - The Papacy to the Accession of Gregory V11, 1073 - The Struggle between the Empire and the Papacy, 1073 - 1250. - The Empire 1250 -1500. - The Church, 1250-1500. - Feudalism - Courts, Judicial Processes and the Peace - Monasticism - The Crusades - etc. Many of the earliest history books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The use of original sources in the teaching of mediaeval history is stilf hampered by the scarcity of material adapted to the needs of the student. This situation is sufficient excuse for the publication of a new book of translations of important mediaeval documents, if such a book does more than reedit old material if it presents, along with the usual and familiar sources, documents not elsewhere translated or brings together documents not otherwise easily accessible. We believe the present work does that, and that it also makes the use of this material more practicable by giving fuller notes and explanations than has usually been attempted. Our purpose in general has been to present material touching only what may be called the most important matters (persons, events, movements, institutions, and conditions) of the whole mediseval period. We have not tried to make a complete source-book for the period, but only to offer in usable form illustrative material which may be of service to both teacher and student in general or information courses. Each document is meant to illustrate or illumine one particular thing. While it may throw light on many other things, the teacher should be warned not to attempt to deduce from these few documents the whole history and life of the Middle A ge. We are fully aware that in the choice of documents we shall not please all. Many of the documents here given are clearly essential and must be found in such a book as we have tried to make. Concerning all such there can be no question. As to the others, there are hundreds of documents which would serve our purpose quite as well as those we have used, perhaps even better. In making our selections we have been guided by a great variety of considerations which it would be useless to enumerate. While another would have made a, different selection, we believe that the documents which
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Read Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1445506904
• ISBN 13: 9781445506906
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 638
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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